The Moon
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| Wands | Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
| Cups | Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
| Swords | Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
| Pentacles | Ace 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
| Aces, Twos, Threes, Fours, Fives, Sixes, Sevens, Eights, Nines, Tens, Pages, Knights, Queens, Kings | |
A tarot card. Position 18 in the Major Arcana.
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Description
Rider Waite Deck
(from The Pictorial Key to Tarot`` by E.A Waite)
The distinction between this card and some of the conventional types is that the moon is increasing on what is called the side of mercy, to the right of the observer. It has sixteen chief and sixteen secondary rays. The card represents life of the imagination apart from life of the spirit. The path between the towers is the issue into the unknown. The dog and wolf are the fears of the natural mind in the presence of that place of exit, when there is only reflected light to guide it.
The last reference is a key to another form of symbolism. The intellectual light is a reflection and beyond it is the unknown mystery which it cannot shew forth. It illuminates our animal nature, types of which are represented below - the dog, the wolf and that which comes up out of the deeps, the nameless and hideous tendency which is lower than the savage beast. It strives to attain manifestation, symbolized by crawling from the abyss of water to the land, but as a rule it sinks back whence it came. The face of the mind directs a calm gaze upon the unrest below; the dew of thought falls; the message is: Peace, be still; and it may be that there shall come a calm upon the animal nature, while the abyss beneath shall cease from giving up a form.
Meanings
- organisation, sleep
- Percieve love in reality to gain an emotional insight that transcends dark emotion.
- instincts, emotions, our animal nature
- the unconscious
- emotions that are frightening or overwhelming
- getting in contact with the unconscious, either voluntary, in an initiatory manner or by involuntary confrontation
- surfacing of our instincts/animal nature, acting "wild", both deliberate or involuntary
- delusions, unconscious motives, mental health issues
- the female moon cycle and everything related (both spiritual and health-wise)
- hormones, bodiely cycles of both genders
Reversed Meaning
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Correspondences
- Links Netzach to Malkuth as path number 29 of the Tree of Life
- Colour violet-indigo
- Pisces in the zodiac
- The direction South-below (from the Sepher Yetzirah)
- Yetziratic Intelligence - the Corporeal intelligence
- Musical note B (Paul Case)
- Hebrew letter Qof meaning Back of Head and also the number 100
- Organic Time - The Holocaust The hope and direction instilled in Popular Culture was tested more harshly than ever before when a second war enveloped the world, forcing the human collective to face its darkest side. In the time of the Holocaust, genocide and annihilation became double-edged weapons. Those that survived the war learned how to never allow such an event to occur again.
