Tarot cards moon 18. With the suit of Swords. Health question

Moon - XVIII Major Arcana

Astrology indicates that the XVIII Arcana corresponds to the Moon in Scorpio, as dark knowledge. There is another correspondence option - the Sun in the eighth astrological house. This indicates a symbol of descent into the underworld.

Other names for the Arcana are Occult Powers, Twilight, Twilight, Month.

Description of the Arcana

Of course, the name of the Arcana suggests that its central figure is the Moon. But an attentive person reveals some unusualness in her image. Around the disk of the Moon itself there is a bright glow, which is usually depicted near the sun. No, this is not the artist’s mistake, this is his deep understanding of the meaning of the Arcanum, for this Arcanum signifies the Moon that has eclipsed the Sun.

In some decks, the Moon also reflects the human face, which is a symbol of the Earth - the material world.

The foreground depicts a swamp from which a cancer is trying to get out. This environment is familiar to him, but he sees the path in front of him and feels the desire to follow it. Behind the swamp, the road is clearly visible, rushing deep into Arkan and disappearing somewhere in the mountains depicted in the background.

On the sides of the road you can see animals - a Wolf and a Dog. They raised their heads up, howling at the unusual Moon. One can assume a lot of mental states of these animals that make them howl, but one can certainly say that these are far from positive emotions.

Behind the animals, there are huge fundamental towers on both sides of the road. Some of them are illuminated by the bright light of the Moon, and some are immersed in pitch darkness.

In some decks, the lunar landscape is accompanied by a golden shower that falls on the person at the end of the path. This is a reward for the fact that the walker has mastered the road.

Sacred meaning of the Moon

The deep meaning of the Arcana lies in its hidden meaning. This is the Moon, which essentially covered the Sun, eclipsing it. The Sun is a symbol of knowledge and consciousness, it determines insight, which allows us to say that the Sun is an expanded consciousness. The expansion of consciousness is a rather deep process; it can only occur through the interaction of consciousness with intuition.

The Moon in this Arcana is a reflection of the Earth, as evidenced by the image of a face on its surface. The Moon, Earth and Sun are on the same astrological line. In the microcosm, in the person himself, this ratio indicates a strict direction towards the material position, namely the material side of life with all the emotions inherent in a person: fears, phobias, experiences, anxieties.

The image of a road, a path, is very important in the Arcana. This symbol suggests that a person can get out of the current situation around him. He must go through this path in order to leave the position of the material, gain a connection with intuition and, as a result, expand his consciousness. Expanding consciousness is not an easy path. It is fraught with various difficulties and obstacles, which also have their own symbolism on the map.

The main obstacle that a person must overcome on the path to expanding consciousness is represented on the Arcana in the form of cancer. Cancer depicts the human mind, which is subject to regressive movement. He does not perceive the possibility of consciously leaving his usual comfort zone. To more accurately understand the stagnation of the mind in this case, one should probably pay attention to how a person is taught to swim. You can tell him for a long time how to perform actions with his hands and feet while standing on the shore, but such training will never lead to the desired result.

In order for a person to start swimming, he needs water. It must be immersed in water and prevented from touching the bottom. Only then is he forced not to listen about how to swim, but to swim. This is a clear example of how a person stops listening to the voice of reason and begins to perform intuitive actions that lead to the desired result.

Arkan says that for a person, it is of paramount importance to overcome the state of cancer, to gain the ability to resist the naked mind with the help of intuition. Confrontation is important here because intuition is action that leads forward, and the voice of reason is just reasoning that slows down in place.

Cancer on the Arcana is depicted in its swamp. This symbol very clearly shows the state of any human comfort zone, which lasts for a certain time without changes. Any comfort zone eventually becomes a zone of stagnation and turns into a swamp. It becomes more and more difficult for cancer to get out of this swamp over time, since the swamp first holds and then drags on. The rainbow vegetation around the swamp indicates that a person is comfortable staying in it, his surroundings are pleasing, and even if he realizes the need to get out of this swamp, there is practically nothing prompting him to take action. Roughly speaking, nothing pushes him out of his comfort zone.

Leaving a person's comfort zone is always associated with enormous emotional, moral, ethical and moral difficulties. He is forced to change his comfort zone, while his comfort zone consists not only of external circumstances, but also of the people around him. Some of these people are negatively disposed towards the person, some try to support him in every possible way, returning him to a state of comfort. But both of them are an equal obstacle to a person’s way out of his comfort zone, because they all reduce the determination with which a person must do this.

The surrounding people on the Arcana are depicted as animals howling at the moon. The negative environment, in fact, the enemies are symbolized by the Wolf, the positive environment by the Dog. These animals howling at the moon represent human emotions that accompany a person when leaving his comfort zone. Moreover, the destruction of one’s own comfort zone will never affect only the person himself; it will certainly affect his environment. Even if a person decides to leave his comfort zone, the environment that is not ready for change will constantly strive to stop him in this action.

It is not only emotions and people that hinder a person’s movement. Alas, the knowledge he previously acquired also serves as an obstacle for him. Here this fundamental information is symbolized by the Towers located on both sides of the path. Towers are nothing more than the arguments of reason, its advice while walking this path. These tips do not come to a person from the outside; a person receives them from his own logic. At the same time, logic, no matter in what form it provides arguments, always leads a person astray from the path if this logic is not combined with intuition.

Just like the Dog and the Wolf, the Towers show negative and positive logical inference. Both lead us astray from the true path. As soon as a person begins to listen to the voice of reason and build even a competent logical chain, he ends up in the Tower, which can become a place of imprisonment for him for some time.

There is another very serious obstacle on a person’s path. It is symbolized by the Mountains in the background. Very often, a person, having reached the top, prefers to rest on his laurels, taking the intermediate state of calm and relaxation along the path as the goal of the path itself. This false understanding leads to the fact that a person on these Mountains will also create a comfort zone for himself, turning the mountains into a swamp, and the person will have to start his path again. But in this case, everything will be much more complicated, because the glimpses of intuition that the golden shower depicts on the Arcana are separated from the person by mountains. In this case, a person is not destined to hear his intuition.

It is very important for an individual to go through the entire path of the XVIII Arcanum in order to get to the XIX Arcanum - the Sun and enjoy the real victory of one’s own Spirit. A delay at any obstacles will delay you from this moment, and the imaginary victory of being at the top of the mountain of the XVIII Arcana will completely throw you back.

The moon, as well as a solar eclipse, always arouses genuine interest in a person, accompanied by both fears and fantasies, romantic dreams, dreams, and building castles in the air. This is also an obstacle on a person’s path to the Sun - XIX Arcanum.

Astrological correspondence of the Moon

The thorny path of the XVIII Arcana is described very well by the legend of Theseus, who was sent, among other victims, into the labyrinth of the Minotaur. This powerful creature constantly demanded sacrifices, which were invariably sent to the labyrinth. None of them could find a way out; he had no choice but to submit to his fate and be eaten. Theseus not only walked through the entire labyrinth, but was able to fight the terrible monster, defeating it. He found a way out of the confusing labyrinth, leading out the rest of the unfortunates who were thrown into the victim along with him.

The path that a person takes along this Arcanum is described in various mythological stories about journeys to Hell. These are the myths about Orpheus, Odysseus, Hercules, Aeneas.

The meaning of the direct Moon in the layout

The sacred meaning of the Arcana also affects its meaning in layouts. As a rule, a direct Moon in layouts indicates that a person will be affected by his emotions of fear, despondency, anxiety, and in some cases even a feeling of hopelessness. At the same time, the situation in which a person finds himself is not critical, since the Arcanum shows only the internal state of a person, and not even his physical state, but his emotional one. Such an internal attitude always does not correspond to the situation.

The moon in an upright position most often indicates that any changes in the situation are hampered by a person’s internal emotional state. The positive aspect of the map is that it gives a direct indication that changes are still possible. They do not occur only for the reason that a person lacks confidence in his own abilities.

This is a temporary card, it indicates that the events in question should undergo changes within a month. During this time, it is extremely necessary to put your emotions in order and begin to act. A person will have to overcome his fears, which, in fact, is a direct victory over the emotional state that is inhibiting him.

The Minor Arcana surrounding the Moon in the reading indicate in which area of ​​human life this situation occurs, as well as where to direct the application of one’s forces. If the Minor Arcana of the Money suit predominate nearby, then the Moon card will show unrealistic plans, dreams and fantasies. In this case, a person needs to take a more realistic look at his capabilities and reconsider his plans.

If the Moon is surrounded by Wands, then we should talk about the need for decisive action. This is exactly the time when nothing can be put off until later. This is the time when all opportunities can be missed.

Swords surrounded by the Moon can show a person’s delusions, false conclusions, or secret enemies if there are picture cards in the layout (Queens and Kings). In this case, the card indicates the ambivalent behavior of people when their actions are at odds with their words. This may also indicate that a person may be receiving unfounded claims from these people.

Cups surrounding the Moon point directly to emotions. They may also be talking about information that may not always be reliable and needs to be verified.

The Moon begins to pose a danger if “heavy” Major Arcana lie next to it. In this case, the card indicates that the person has been so led by his emotions that he has completely lost control over the situation, and it becomes critical for him. This card indicates that at some point the person either missed opportunities by following his emotions or lost his sense of his own power.

Particular attention should be paid to the combination of the Hanged Man (XII Arcana) - Moon, since here we can say that a person is on the verge of suicide or in extreme apathy. Together with the Devil (XV Arcanum), the Moon can show deviations in the psyche, up to and including serious mental illness and even violent insanity. With the Jester (0 Arcana), the Moon will indicate hysterical states. In fact, with this combination, a person runs away from reality.

An interesting combination of the Moon and Death (Arcanum XIII), which at first glance would seem fatal, actually speaks directly about a person’s way out of this situation, for Death in this case is interpreted exclusively as a transformation.

In some cases, the Moon shows the road, and such a road is always associated with some kind of development. For example, such a card will appear if a person has to move to another city to receive some kind of education.

The meaning of the inverted Moon in the layout

An inverted Moon indicates that a person has passed the stage when he cannot cope with a difficult situation on his own. He is prevented from resolving his issues by threshold emotional states that are constantly on the verge of breakdown. Such emotional states are popularly called “covered.”

If there are picture cards (Queens or Kings) next to the Moon in the layout, then, just like with a direct Moon, they depict people carrying negativity. If in the case of a direct Arcanum we are talking about information that should be checked for accuracy, but it will not necessarily be unreliable, then in the case of an inverted Arcanum we should be talking about deception or deliberately distorted information.

The inverted Moon exacerbates the negativism of all the Major Arcana in the reading. The only Arcana that avoids the negativity of the inverted Moon is the Sun (XIX Arcana). She cannot influence this Arcanum in any way. In this case, we can say that awareness always takes precedence over fears.

Both a straight and inverted Arcanum can indicate that a magical effect was exerted on a person. Moreover, this influence is clearly successful, because it has already affected his emotional state. The presence of the Five of Swords, the Seven of Swords and the Ten of Swords nearby will indicate damage as such.

Direction of self-development

If the card falls on self-development, then a person needs to think about the fact that his comfort zone leads him to a state of stagnation, he cannot develop, which will certainly affect his future life. If at the moment he does not leave his comfort zone and does not take decisive action, then the swamp will not only hold him back, but will also drag him deeper. There may come a time when a person stops seeing any prospects at all.

A very important point here is to pay attention to your internal state. A person must realize that any emotions, any fears, any moral barriers are the direct work of the mind, they are limiting factors. Having realized this, a person gains the strength to take the right step, which his intuition tells him. The Moon suggests that a person has an excellently developed intuition, but the mind completely drowns it out. There is no need to talk about developing intuition here, you just need to learn to trust it.

Arkan warns that three types of obstacles await a person on the way. The first obstacle is the people around him, who will either tempt the person to remain in his usual comfort zone, or will take some action to prevent changes in his life.

The second obstacle is your own mind and logic. They will throw up information, build logical chains that will completely talk about the impossibility of leaving your comfort zone.

The third obstacle is your own first successes. In this case, a person can decide that everything has already happened for him and stop there. Taking into account all the above points, Arkan says that a person needs to find the strength in himself to overcome all these obstacles, stop reacting to surrounding circumstances and his own emotions, and begin to act, obeying his intuition. In this form, this Arcanum speaks of very great opportunities for a person’s self-development and his spiritual growth. If a person manages to bypass all obstacles, she has a great chance to develop her extrasensory abilities and supersensible perception.

An inverted Moon on self-development suggests that a person is currently in a state of heightened perception, and this perception concerns only a personal attitude to the situation.

A person reacts very violently and sharply to everything that happens to him. He actually gushes with emotions, which naturally slows down further development. In this situation, in order to follow the path of self-development, it is necessary to reverse the Arcanum. To do this, you need to give your intuition a chance, try to listen to it, and then follow the path of the direct Arcana.

Job

In work scenarios, the direct Moon speaks of an unclear situation. It could arise due to the fact that a person conducted business incorrectly, relied more on illusions and unreliable information. He is currently reaping the benefits of all the mistakes he has made. This is the time when illusions and castles in the air are destroyed.

Situationally, this may be expressed in the failure of some transactions, the delivery of low-quality products, vague lending conditions, inattention during negotiations or settlements. A person with such a map cannot fully concentrate on the process, which naturally affects his productivity. Sometimes this card also speaks of the nebulosity of the person himself, when he gives deliberately exaggerated information about himself. For example, he may exaggerate his current financial situation, make up stories about important connections, or lie about his capabilities.

If this card falls on the team, then we can safely say that behind-the-scenes intrigues, insincere relationships, and mistrust play a big role in the team. It is noteworthy that the Moon card very often falls on politicians.

There is one area of ​​activity where the Moon has an exclusively positive meaning. This card is ideal for people of creative professions, since in its true meaning it speaks specifically about creativity. This card indicates well-developed intuition, imagination and the ability to convey emerging images to other people - musicians, artists, writers.

Thus, if the card falls on creativity, then it is positive, but if it falls on business, it is negative.

This Arcanum is a direct indication of magic and occult sciences, therefore, it is very informative for magicians, and the Moon is favorable both for the general path of development of the magician and for the specific work he has performed. If the card falls on the result of the ritual, then we can say that the ritual is successful.

With such a card, one cannot speak of a successful financial situation if the business does not concern those areas for which the card is favorable.

An inverted Arcana at work speaks of very big problems. A person is faced with open deception; in fact, he is deliberately led to make mistakes. With such a card, we can say that a person can be set up by his business partners or contractors, or employees. Such a card speaks not of hidden enemies, but of open confrontation.

In an inverted Moon, there are no positive aspects for the businessman himself and for running a business. It doesn’t exist even for people of creative professions and magicians. For people in creative professions, the Moon shows that they are captive to emotions; these emotions overwhelm them and deprive them of the opportunity to create. He cannot sublimate his images and visions into creativity, but is only absorbed in his own experiences. This prevents the transfer of images from the virtual world to the real one. For example, such a person can paint pictures and then destroy them, or create entire novels and then burn the manuscripts.

For people of occult specialties, the inverted Moon indicates that a person has not calculated his strength and has exceeded his authority. It may also indicate that the person does not have enough knowledge to perform certain jobs.

In a team, the inverted Moon speaks of open confrontation and actual war within; here we are no longer talking about intrigue, but rather about malicious actions. With such a card, employees can easily slander each other, frame each other, and slander each other.

Personal relationships

In personal relationships, the Moon shows nebula. There is a secret between people that one is trying to hide from the other. Since the Moon is a female card, we can say that the relationship is influenced by some woman from the outside. She can be not only a mistress, but also a person who in every possible way hinders the development of relationships: a friend, mother-in-law, employee.

It is clear that in the relationships described by the Moon, there is always fear and uncertainty. In such moments, Arcanum can mean jealousy, and it can be caused by the fear of loneliness of one of the partners, and not by sensual moments.

If this card does not fall on the union as a whole, but only on one of the partners in the union, it may show a person’s preference. As a rule, this person prefers to create false ideals and idols for himself; he is too detached from reality and overly romantic. An example would be a woman waiting for a prince on a white horse, or a man spending his life searching for the ideal woman.

This perception of relationships gives rise to a huge number of complexes in a person. As a result of the fact that a person cannot find his ideal, he loses self-confidence, begins to feel resentful of fate, considers it unfair, and considers himself a failure.

When the Moon falls out, a single person has absolutely no chance of meeting a partner. The reason is that, as a rule, this person is not just lonely, he is closed in on himself. This isolation does not lead to peace, it only sends a person into dreams and makes him experience strong emotions. A person suffers from unfulfilled dreams.

The individual experiences the fear of being alone and never meeting his partner. The “heavy” Arcana lying nearby indicate that these fears have developed into phobias. For example, the Devil (XV Arcana) in combination with the Moon for a lonely person may indicate that his psyche is damaged in this matter, and he may even go on a binge due to loneliness.

Relationships between friends and colleagues are also murky. Here we can say that in these relationships there is a woman whose intrigues make their own adjustments.

This card has a slightly different meaning in relations between people of occult specialties or creative professions. Here she can show joint development. For example, the creation of some kind of school, holding joint ceremonies and rituals, partnership in writing works, etc. This map demonstrates well the interaction between the poet and the composer.

An inverted card in an alliance scenario indicates that there is open deception here. Naturally, all these moments are accompanied by a heightened emotional sphere. Here people do not keep their emotions inside, but throw them out. In such relationships one can encounter scandals, insults, mutual grievances, justified accusations, open confrontation and demonstrations of disdain. Such relationships cannot be durable: they need to be changed by turning the Arcanum over and following the straight path, or they will be forced to break.

For a lonely person, the inverted Moon speaks of a state of deepest depression, apathy, and despair of meeting his partner. Most often, this situation is unfounded and only indicates that the person needs to change. He must look realistically at the people around him and realize what is preventing his partner from meeting. As a rule, these are circumstances into which a person has driven himself. As an example, we can cite a woman who lives according to the home-work-home scheme. She is not looking for an opportunity to go somewhere, to visit the place where her intended partner may be. All that is required in this case is simply to change the rhythm of your life.

Personality characteristics

The Moon characterizes a person as a person with superbly developed intuition. Some take this characteristic as a basis and use it when choosing their profession - esotericism. The choice of such a profession is also facilitated by the second significant characteristic of the Moon - the ability to comprehend secret knowledge.

Along with these positive qualities, the Moon also brings a lot of negative ones to the personality characteristics. Among them, it is worth noting isolation, the inability to express one’s feelings in the presence of excessive emotionality. The Moon person is prone to melancholy, apathy and exaggeration of unpleasant moments in life. As with many Arcana, the personality characteristics of the Moon require some additions. This is done by laying out an additional card of the Major Arcana, because the Moon enhances the negativism of certain human traits.

When characterizing a person, you need to be wary of such combinations as the Moon with the Devil (XV Arcana), the Moon with the Hanged Man (XII Arcana) and the Moon with the Fool (0 Arcana). The Devil under the Moon speaks of possible mental abnormalities in a person’s characteristics. There are addictions here: alcohol, drugs, gaming. This combination also speaks of sexual perversion.

With the Hanged Man, the Moon will talk about suicidal tendencies. A fool under the Moon will indicate a person’s lack of restraint, overexcitability, hot temper, and excessive emotionality. This is especially dangerous if the Fool is upside down. With neutral cards adjacent to the Moon in a person’s characteristics, Arcan will tell about the presence of a certain stable worldview in this person, a collection of certain principles that he adheres to. He does not strive to part with them even if they are absurd.

One of the main characteristics of a Moon person can be called jealousy. Moreover, this jealousy manifests itself not only in love relationships, but also in everything else. This could be maternal or son jealousy, it could be the jealousy of a person for his work, a student for a teacher. Very often the actions of such a person are driven by fears and even phobias. This cannot but affect the character.

The inverted Moon aggravates the personal characteristics of the Moon person. It is quite possible that she is talking about a moment when a person experiences an aggravation of emotions and experiences. In this case, any positive card of the Major Arcana will lie next to the Moon when adding characteristics.

At the same time, the inverted Moon speaks of serious problems for a person in terms of the psyche. If there is a “heavy” card of the major arcana nearby, the inverted card of the Moon indicates that a person will not be able to cope with his personal problems on his own and he urgently needs to turn to specialists: psychologists, psychiatrists, narcologists, magicians.

This is the only card in the deck that characterizes a person’s personality and shows the presence of negative magical influences - damage, curses, the evil eye, love spells. Most often, this card characterizes curses, and these curses come through the female line. In this case, without the help of a magician, a person will never be able to change anything in his life, because the curse will dominate both his character and the course of his life.

Another characteristic of the Reversed Moon personality is that of a deceiver. This is, rather, not a dreamer and a projector, but specifically a person who enjoys the fruits of his deception - a swindler, a swindler. Such a card will characterize cheaters, for whom deception is almost a profession, especially if an inverted Magician (I Arcanum) lies nearby.

For people of creative professions, as well as for esotericists, the inverted Moon suggests that the time has come to replenish your strength, you need to take a break from your work.

Health

Human health can be considered in several ways:

• determining the general state of health using one Major Arcana, upright or inverted;
• viewing the processes occurring in the body using the two Major Arcana, upright and inverted;
• deep chakra diagnostics of the entire body with the Major Arcana in upright and inverted form, for which it is important to know which chakra these or other organs and systems belong to.

General state

When viewing the general state of the body with the help of one Arcana, the direct Moon will indicate the state rather than physiological, but psychological. Here we can say that a person is in a state of emotional fatigue, he is on the verge of depression, his general physical condition may not be entirely satisfactory, but with such a map we can talk about some kind of psychosomatic diseases.

An inverted card on the general condition shows deep psychological trauma, leading a person to depression and apathy. This condition, of course, affects physical well-being, but at the same time the person loses strength, he is not able to complete work due to the fatigue that overtakes him. Fatigue can cause the sensation of various physical problems. For example, headache, lack of appetite, heaviness in the limbs, a feeling of congestion in the spine.

Ongoing processes

In a 2-arcana scenario, both the upright and inverted Moon in the first position will speak about the state of the psyche and nervous system. In the second position, the map in any position will show processes affecting the nervous system.

Chakra diagnostics

To conduct a deep analysis of your health, you need to lay out the cards by chakra centers, starting with Muladhara. The moon will tell you about the presence of problems on the chakra on which it fell.

Muladhara. The Direct Moon shows the “deprivation” of the entire body, lack of physical strength, general weakness, apathy of all organs and psychosomatic causes of illness.

With an inverted Moon, a person necessarily feels a general malaise in the body and, in this case, the map shows that the cause of this condition is too much tension in the nervous system.

Svadhisthana. For a woman, the direct Moon shows healthy and normally functioning genitals. This is a state of readiness for pregnancy, a correct monthly cycle, no problems with the functioning of the ovaries, the hormonal sphere is completely healthy.

With an inverted lasso, we can talk about disturbances in the monthly cycle, disruptions of the hormonal system, and the inability to get pregnant. It should be said that pregnancy in this state of Swadhisthana very often cannot occur due to internal barriers and fears.

For a man, both the direct and inverted Moon do not mean anything good. In an upright position, the Moon will speak of passivity, erectile dysfunction, physical weakness and a tendency to impotence caused by one’s own fears and phobias. As an example, we can cite a man who, having once had a negative experience, will continue to be afraid of sexual relationships with women, and if such arise, he will experience problems with erection.

With the Arcana inverted, we can talk about impotence in a man. But this Arcanum can also indicate deviations in sexual development, realized in hypersexuality.

Manipura. In Manipur, the direct Moon shows the satisfactory functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, the correctness of all processes, and the smooth functioning of the enzymatic system.

The inverted Moon speaks of impaired functionality of the gastrointestinal tract, malfunctions of the enzymatic system, and impaired peristalsis.

Anahata. Since the Moon indicates the cyclical nature of all processes, on Anahata it will show the rhythm of the heart and breathing. It is worth noting that very often rhythmic changes in the functioning of the heart and lungs are in no way related to certain diseases, but can be psychosomatic in nature and caused by a person’s emotional state.

The inverted Moon will show disruptions in the rhythms of the heart and respiratory system, but they are already caused by diseases. With such a map, we can say that a stable emotionally excited state or stress could have a psychosomatic effect on the body and cause chronic diseases in it. Roughly speaking, the person has already passed the point of no return. For example, tachycardia or bradycardia, shallow pulmonary breathing.

Vishuddha. Direct Moon on Vishuddha shows the correct functioning of the nervous system and its stability. Inverted will speak of disturbances in the functioning of the nervous system, which can manifest itself as neuroses and neuritis.

Ajna. The Direct Arcana indicates that a person has sound reasoning and calmness, which leads him to a satisfactory state of the body as a whole. When the Arcana is inverted, the human body begins to be affected by negative thoughts, causing psychosomatic deviations. Also on Ajna, this Arcanum can talk about problems with brain activity - meningitis, brain inflammation.

Sahasrara. This card has nothing to do with the physical state of a person, but it can say a lot about the mental state. In the direct position, the Moon indicates the presence of extrasensory abilities in a person, hypersensitivity and even beyond capabilities.

The inverted Moon indicates the presence of a mass of psychological blocks, emotional instability, lack of connection with intuition, but, most importantly, this card on the Sahasrara can indicate serious mental disorders, mental illness and sleepwalking.

Layout for the situation

When considering a situation, the Moon to a greater extent shows the emotional component of everything that happens in a person’s life. She says that this situation causes discomfort, fear and an overly anxious state in a person. At the same time, she predicts a positive outcome of this situation if a person overcomes his fears and takes decisive action to resolve this situation.

When the Moon appears in a scenario, it is very important to pay attention to the nearby Arcana, since they are the ones who will suggest a way out of the current situation. Thus, the suit of Swords will encourage a person to think more carefully, weigh all available initial data in order to identify all the tense moments in time. With this attitude, it is possible to reveal vague information, to see unreliability or lies in time, in this case a person has time to find the right decision and not commit a rash act.

Cards of Wands, on the contrary, encourage a person to take decisive action. He does not have time to think, otherwise, due to his fears, he may lose his chance. If the suit of Cups lies nearby, then this is a direct indication that it is extremely important for a person to get rid of excess emotions. Even this alone can help him change a negative situation for him.

When the Moon is adjacent to the suit of Pentacles, a person is called upon to get rid of illusions and projects. In this case, the Moon card indicates the impracticality of a person and speaks of the need for a more realistic approach to life.

At the everyday level, the direct Moon can be expressed in the fear of changing professions or accepting a new position. She may report fear of starting a new relationship or even just going on a date.

With such a card, a person always has a fear of losing money or hearing condemnation in his direction, which sometimes forces him to refuse to buy a significant item he needs. Very often a person is accompanied by the fear of receiving a negative assessment of his abilities, so he may not strive to demonstrate his talent to others. A writer can write his works on the table, depriving himself of the opportunity to earn money for them.

Depending on the situation under consideration, special attention should be paid to the alignment in which the Moon appears with the Five or Seven of Swords. At the everyday level, this alignment, as a rule, means theft, and at the energy level it can mean damage.

An inverted Moon in a situation indicates the criticality of the situation, and the main reason for this lies in the emotional state of the person and in his attitude to the situation itself. As a rule, emotions overflow, a person cannot make the right decision, but takes actions that can subsequently only aggravate the situation.

If the direct Moon gives a person time to think, then the inverted Moon indicates that the situation has reached the point where it is urgently necessary to change it.

The reversed Moon warns that the situation is based on deception. Actually, this card warns a person against participating in any dubious enterprises or adventures. It can also warn a person about gambling.

At the everyday level, the Moon very often shows excessive consumption of alcohol or drugs. If a person makes a deal for a purchase or real estate transaction, then the card warns of fraud or falsification of documents. Also, all domestic quarrels fall under the inverted Moon. To some extent it competes with the tower in this indicator.

Card of the day

If the Moon appears on the map of the day, then you should pay attention, first of all, to your emotions. No matter what happens on this day, no matter what events mark it, you should never fall into extremely emotional states. Any situation will be resolved the way you want only if you manage to completely control your emotions. In this case, we can talk about a positive day.

An inverted card warns that during the day you can meet people who are unfavorable for you, or encounter deception or fraud. It is best to postpone important matters and serious transactions on this day, especially those related to real estate and long-term financial projects.

Card of the Year

As a map of the year, the Moon predicts a very difficult path to something new and unknown. In order to get the desired result, you will have to take control of your own fears and learn to deal with them. Courage takes cities and mountains. Behind these mountains, new, wide horizons open up, but you must always remember that there will definitely be people around who block the road to the new. These are not always enemies, so you should be very careful when taking anyone's advice.

The inverted Moon will indicate that during the year you will have to deal with a lot of negative aspects, which will be accompanied by fears and even depression. A person will be surrounded by negative people who bring with them deception and scams. It is necessary not to give them the opportunity to drive themselves into fears. After all, they are just waiting for this. Fears need to be driven away, and intuition will help you figure out the hidden motives of surrounding ill-wishers.

Temporal characteristics of the Moon

This card has its own temporary characteristics. If it appears in the layouts, then it should be said that events will occur within a month or in a month. It should be noted that we are not talking about a calendar month, but about a lunar month - 28 days.

Arcana Council

Arkan advises learning to listen to your premonitions, dreams, and intuition. It is very important for yourself to understand what lies behind the visible events and behavior of people, what hides the present, what remains hidden under the ruins of the past.

Luna recommends relying more on your feelings and sensations rather than on logical analysis. You should not blindly trust your friends, just as you should not be afraid of your enemies: fear and excessive trust are the towers that will lead you astray.

It's time to take control of your fears and emotions. They are bad advisers. You need to listen to your subconscious, because at this moment it is stronger than ever. The Moon makes everything secret become clear if you open up to your intuition.

Tarot cards are divided into the minor and major arcana, and there are seventy-eight cards in total in the deck. Each tarot card in the layout has its own meaning and can appear in both literal and figurative meaning. The tarot moon is an indication of a hidden danger, a magical conspiracy or a warning.

The Moon Card Symbolizes Hidden Danger

The general meaning of the moon card in the tarot and a more detailed analysis. Reflection in all areas of life

The ancients believed that the moon tarot card had a bad reputation. Its meaning included a hidden conspiracy or a warning about imminent danger. When this card appears in the schedule, in everyday life In life, people must prepare for unfavorable emotional events, which can be indicated by various options.

Most often, if the eighteenth lasso of the tarot appears, it is necessary to prepare for the machinations of people or fate. Such events manifest themselves as:

• Theft.
• Envy.
• Jealousy.
• Deception and loss.

The slogan of the arcana moon speaks of the onset of inevitable events under unclear circumstances.

The moon tarot card always warns against making quick and rash decisions, and refusing to test one’s strength. The meaning of the moon tarot card warns the fortuneteller about possible future events of a negative nature, makes him think about his every step and refuse to make quick money.

The fortuneteller must think about what is happening; for him now a long black streak is coming. But the duration is equal to one month, since the cycle of the moon lasts exactly this period of time.

There is also a secondary meaning in the tarot of this arcana, which indicates the road, reinforcing the main meaning. A fortuneteller stands at the beginning of a dark and unknown path, which is immersed in moonlight.

Moon Tarot is one of the most dangerous

The meaning of personal character

The meaning of the moon card warns of possible alarming situations that can bring a lot of trouble. Moon 18 Arcana falls to the fortuneteller when the person himself begins to intuitively guess about upcoming dangerous events, but does not understand their personal significance.

The Moon in combination with other tarot cards can be quite intimidating, especially if there is a minor arcana card nearby (such as the nine of swords).

A person begins to doubt himself and be afraid of future actions, and the moon in the scenario speaks of his internal discomfort due to experiences and deeds.

The card indicates the superiority of the moon over the tides (water) and over the secrets of the human soul. And since any person consists of a large amount of liquid, the inner world (psychosomatic state) correlates with water. The Moon rules the secret corners of a person’s soul and personality, revealing the deepest desires and awakening intuition.

This lasso, which appears in the reading, can also symbolize the psychological state of a person, which can manifest itself:

• Depression.
• Lack of goals and objectives for personal growth.
• Completely depressed state of the individual.
• The burden of memories and experiences.

All this indicates a lost state of the soul, from which it is necessary to get out as quickly as possible and learn all the secrets of one’s own consciousness.

But sometimes the 18th lasso can also speak of favorable changes for a creative person. This is due to the fact that everything secret is not always shrouded in darkness; sometimes positive magical moments can be hidden behind the unknown.

Tarot moon symbolizes the deepest experiences of a person

Importance in the professional field

If the question during fortune telling was related to plans for a future career, then the fallen moon means:

• Instability in this area of ​​life.
• Or fear of this instability (fear of not being realized as an employee).

Most often, in fortune telling, it is customary to use the Thoth tarot not only for its colorful images of an esoteric nature, but also for the unknown meanings of some symbols, which add mystery and allow the fortuneteller to interpret the alignment in accordance with his own situation.

Such an unknown state, covered in darkness, creates additional situations of misunderstanding in the service and can interfere with its further progress.

It is important to pay attention to the combination of the card with the next one in order to interpret the situation as accurately as possible.

Very often, the tarot moon falls for workers in the creative field and is interpreted in a positive way. Thus, for representatives of show business, the tarot moon means the discovery of hidden opportunities in the work process and the exposure of conspiracies.

The Thoth Tarot is known for its esoteric symbols

Financial situation and living conditions

The meaning of the card for these areas does not have a positive meaning, but does not carry a hidden danger. The Moon suggests that it is necessary to prepare to solve financial difficulties. Financial instability may occur due to job loss or lack of profitable deals due to betrayal of colleagues and partners.

The moon warns of a changing financial situation, but this is not interpreted in a positive way, since the moon itself is a card with the meaning of warning against loss.

The meaning of relationships with a partner, feelings

In relationships, lasso 18 means betrayal. This interpretation is associated with moonlight, it is cold and does not provide any warmth, and in a relationship, the moon represents cooling towards a partner.

The 18th lasso speaks of the presence of lies and understatement in relationships, the secrecy of the partner’s motives. The card speaks of a cold relationship between partners, which may be reinforced by disappointment.

Such false and secretive relationships can indicate not only an unsuccessful union, but also the presence of deceitful friends and those capable of slander. Such false friends do not bode well, and nearby dropped cards can reveal their hidden intentions.

Sometimes this card can be interpreted as latent homosexuality. The moon in the tarot can reveal to the fortuneteller the secret sides of his soul and expose secret sexual preferences that the fortuneteller hid in the depths of his soul and mistook for fears.

Rarely, the moon can report a partner with a certain obsession or obsession. For this person there is a danger of suicide (if there are corresponding surrounding cards in the layout).

For relationships, the card of this lasso symbolizes the attractiveness of one of the partners and the rejection of the second at a deep level of the soul (emotional coldness).

The 18th lasso symbolizes betrayal and cooling of relationships

Deep analysis of the meaning of the 18th Arcana

The 18th Arcana card has many secondary symbols that also need to be taken into account when interpreting the meaning. And if this card appears in the layout, then you need to consider it in more detail. The meaning may include ambivalence: both anxiety of events and complete calm.

Sometimes all the symbols presented can be scary, because the map shows howling dogs and the light of the moon, combined with scary towers in the distance. But for some, such symbols may indicate inner peace, this is indicated by the symbols: a crayfish in a calm pond, surrounded by moonlight (like a miracle).

Dogs or wolves

Dogs or wolves reflect the days when a person’s mind is cleansed of bad thoughts and the body of bad deeds.

According to another meaning, dogs guard the position of the moon and the sun (the lasso of the sun follows the lasso of the moon); they are symbols of the twilight deity Anubis. Anubis opens the gates of the secret underworld, and dogs guard him. There is no difference between wolves and dogs, only their belonging to the lasso is interpreted.

18 lasso and dogs near the towers in it speak of the protection of secret desires and thoughts, their imprisonment in the hidden depths of the mind.

Dogs and wolves are symbols of Anubis

Cancer

Symbolizes a living creature and the zodiac constellation, which is dominated by the moon. Sometimes the symbol of cancer is usually interpreted as a symbol of the ability to bear a child (motherhood).

Based on the concept of the cancer symbol, the 18th lasso speaks of the process of childbirth. A person is greeted by the world with a bright light, emerging from the warm and protected mother’s womb, he is preparing to go through trials (a portal of two towers). And it is precisely behind these tests that all the unknown lies.

Cancer also symbolizes a person’s delusion, his stay in illusions and permanent seduction.

Man and towers

Towers symbolize threat and danger. This is a portal that hides the unknown and mysteriousness of future events. The road between these two towers opens as a road of knowledge and liberation, a time of final testing. But this same symbol also speaks of the values ​​of the indestructible, the border of the unconscious.

A person may be present on the arcana card or absent; his presence means that the person is at a crossroads, a clearer projection on the meaning of the arcana.

Towers symbolize danger

Meaning of the reversed moon tarot card. Manifestation of meaning in combinations. Thoth Tarot 18th Arcana

In the reverse (upside down) position, the card has the opposite meaning to the one that appears. This position of the card indicates the end of all previously illuminated problems and troubles, but there are obstacles for the fortuneteller (since the card itself is negative and mystical):

• Minor experiences that can be reinforced by small but hurtful deception on the part of loved ones.
• The onset of a period when small flaws may appear in business related to minor intrigues of opponents.
• Since the moon symbolizes the onset of deception or the danger of deception, its appearance in the scenario cannot mean positive emotions in any of its positions. So, its inverted position indicates minor situations of deception or slight slander.
• Or there may be negative health situations (the fortuneteller may become slightly ill), instability at work, or impending changes in love.

The inverted position of the fallen moon in the layout has a negative meaning, just like the moon in its literal meaning. In any position, the moon indicates the onset of a period of turmoil and internal experiences that can affect the health of the fortuneteller. The meaning of a card in an inverted position is interpreted as the presence of changes with minor negative consequences. It can symbolize a short period of stagnation in relationships and feelings between partners or stagnation in the movement of vital energy.

A reversed moon card reverses its meaning.

Combination with other cards in the layout

To interpret the meaning of the cards as accurately as possible, it is necessary not only to analyze the meaning of each individual arcana, but also to look at the adjacent cards in the layout. So, the 18th arcana can appear with any card of the major arcana, and its value will vary depending on the position:

• Jester. If a card appears next to a jester, then its meaning intensifies and means: eclipse of the mind and clouding of reason. The time is coming when a person can lose himself.
• Mag. The fortuneteller will be involved in a dangerous game, during which he will use people for his own benefit.
• High Priestess. It is interpreted as practicing the dark arts and black magic. Performing a witchcraft ritual over a fortuneteller, a stranger.
• Empress. Finding strength to solve problems.
• Emperor. The presence of a strong enemy.
• Hierophant. The presence of a lying soothsayer nearby.
• Lovers. This means that the union in question is based on a lie.
• Chariot. Presence of a confusing situation.
• Force. The appearance of this card in combination with the moon means a lack of will in the fortuneteller or the person making the wish.
• Hermit. Indicates an impending unpleasant situation.
• Wheel of Fortune. Reinforces the mystery of the moon with fear.
• Justice. Presence of deception and fraud.
• Hanged. In combination with the moon, it speaks of losing a competition.
• Death. Indicates the presence of risk.
• Moderation. High risk of changes occurring in the target area.
• Devil. The presence of a dark force that is approaching. It means that betrayal awaits the fortuneteller.
• Tower. Tells the fortuneteller to stop self-destruction.
• Star. It is reinforced to the main meaning of the moon by absent-mindedness.
• Sun. He talks about the current difficult love situation.
• Court. Search for the truth.
• World. neutralizes the meaning of the moon and indicates that the situation remains unchanged.

Moon cards combined with Jester and Chariot

Combination with wands

Cards of the minor arcana in combination with the moon can influence the interpretation of the entire layout:

• Ace. It speaks of a fading interest in a person or situation, depending on what was planned.
• Two. The emergence of ambiguity in business.
• Troika. Unexpected joy or an expensive gift.
• Four. The presence of lies in a mystery case or the appearance of a rival in a relationship.
• Five. The presence of deception and fraud in business.
• Six. It indicates that the fortuneteller is on the wrong path.
• Seven. The fortuneteller will have to go through certain difficulties on the path of life.
• Eight. It says that the fortuneteller or the one who made the fortune has a large number of enemies.
• Nine. The aggressiveness of the situation and its participants towards the fortuneteller or each other.
• Ten. The fortuneteller is in a state of despair.
• Page. The combination of this lasso with the moon indicates a mistake in any decision.
• Knight. The fortuneteller will have a meeting with friends at home.
• Queen. Having a mistress.
• King. This card reinforces the mystery of the moon by the presence of failure in matters related to deception.

All other combinations must be considered privately, using the relevant literature on the interpretation of layouts.

Tarot Tota Arcana Moon

Tarot tota were created by Aleister Crowley, who also wrote explanations for each arcana and their combination (his own interpretation of the meanings). Crowley described the 18 Arcana as a difficult test card for a fortuneteller, carrying a negative meaning. When this card appears, it means that the fortuneteller is captive of his fears and bad feelings and is sick a lot.

Crowley described the event identified with this card as a moment of crossroads, a difficult period full of trials and disappointments. The fortuneteller should abandon the intentions he is currently taking to achieve his goals, otherwise he will suffer disappointment and loss.

Traditionally, the Moon has a bad reputation. A medieval monarch would not have doubted for a second when he saw the Moon in the layout - there is some kind of conspiracy here!

Something secret, hidden, fraught with danger.... This card suggests the presence of unpleasant emotional manifestations in everyday life. This could be envy and jealousy, and where they are, they are not far from intrigues and deception (and their form is theft and loss). Where there are intrigues, there is danger, where there is danger, there is uncertainty and fear, where there is fear, there is avoidance. According to the Moon, we either mislead someone, or someone misleads us, or we deceive ourselves about something. The slogan of this Arcana sounds in a whisper: “According to unverified data under unclear circumstances...” and guess what happened or will happen - guess for yourself. But keep in mind that everything is not as it seems, and the line between accurately working intuition and imagination that creates illusions is now blurred more than ever.

In fact, the main message of the Moon is that now there is no need to embark on any bold adventures, you should not test your strength.

This is a warning card, saying that you should be careful, that the desire to avoid danger should be the main thing now, you need to watch your every step, since the risk of going astray is very high. This can be a difficult task, for example, if the enticing prospect of making good money or getting something looms before your eyes.

It indicates that events currently unfolding are beyond our complete control. They can, as a result of unexpected influence, have unpredictable consequences. It is impossible to draw correct conclusions based on incomplete information. Moreover, information may be “incomplete” not because someone is hiding something, but because we ourselves are unwilling to face the truth. There is a hidden danger, a risk of falling into a trap, the possibility of sudden changes, because hidden forces are palpably at work in the situation. Other cards can tell who will be the secret enemy for now, but in reality we don’t really know where the danger will come from.

The moon portends difficulties and obstacles, and implicit ones; it is not immediately clear what they are and what they represent. The likelihood of making a mistake is very high. What seemed so clear and understandable yesterday is today covered in darkness, landmarks have disappeared. It's like being in the forest - during the day everything seems nice, but at night the feeling is completely different.

Dark stripe. There is an opinion that we are talking about a period of one month (the cycle of the Moon).

Dark mysterious energies, irrational behavior, immersion in the world of the Soul, instincts and fantasies, walking on the edge. The power of the unconscious makes us unreliable people, but it also brings great dreams, premonitions, subtle riches.

The moon for the most part leads into the depths of the imaginative world of the soul, dreams and revelations, but sometimes it also predicts ordinary travel, not only astral ones. In the end, the most important thing on this map (after the Moon itself) is the Road!
If the Moon appears, for example, as the leading card of the annual layout, this is the very dark hour before the dawn. She says that a person stands on the still dark threshold of a new day. This is a very important and deep, although difficult moment in his life. It can be experienced as depression, but in fact, at this time the soul accumulates strength and learns a lot, as happens in a dream, before waking up to a new life and reaching a new level.

Anxiety and fear, hesitation and uncertainty. The moon often falls when a person intuitively feels that something is approaching, that various numerous influences (often hidden, it’s even difficult to express in words what they are) are combined into one threatening force, but he still does not really understand what is happening . The undercurrent is carrying somewhere. On the Moon we carefully balance on a narrow path, trembling and feeling like tightrope walkers in the darkness. Usually we are pretty scared (if the Nine of Swords is also nearby, then almost to death), and we don’t know what to do next.

Fear of taking an important step. Feelings of vulnerability and insecurity, self-doubt, fearfulness. Feeling of danger. The moon may indicate that a person is experiencing discomfort due to heaps of work to do or the need to be in public, and he would really like to avoid both. In any case, he is uncomfortable and scared.

In this card, the Moon demonstrates its power over water and over the soul. Man, as you know, consists mostly of water. The psyche, the inner world, are traditionally correlated with the water element. This is an archetypal symbol of the unconscious. We find ourselves at the mercy of mysterious irrational forces. This is not someone else's will, as is the case in the Devil. These are some kind of external influences or mysterious undercurrents in our own souls - we were going to do one thing, but we are doing something completely different, without even really understanding how it happened. It's twilight. By analogy with the phrase from the film of the same name about my personal heroine, we can say that the Arcana of the Moon is our personal Twilight. This is our personal Twilight. The twilight of the soul in which we wander - and sometimes find our way. The moon makes it possible to plunge into frightening, but at the same time fascinating depths, to get acquainted with what is hidden within us. She is subject to fears, secrets and memories, intuition, dreams and symbolism.

According to the Moon, contact is established with the secret components of personality, with images of our desires, fears and aspirations - the result can be both depression and inspiration. Along the Moon we plunge into the dark worlds of the soul. Sometimes she reacts with her appearance to the process of psychotherapy and even simply to reading poetry or prose of the “Silver Age” or touching the art of decadence. Also, its appearance in readings becomes more frequent when the nights begin to lengthen and become colder, and people are overcome by despondency, fear and uncertainty.

The Moon actually redirects information for processing to the unconscious, because consciousness turns out to be ineffective for some reason. She stays with us when our almighty diet abandons us, and for that we should thank her. It is the Moon that does the “dirty” work, staying with us in our darkest hour. Her light shines on us like a mother there and then, “where all other lights go down.” We learn from her how to walk peacefully along our own path in the darkest and deepest night.

The Moon man is melancholic and withdrawn, it is almost impossible to see him joyful, at the same time he is characterized by deep feelings, an irrational attitude to life, developed intuition and the ability to comprehend secret knowledge, hidden aspects of existence. Moods rule everything. Developed mental abilities that are difficult to bring under conscious control. They can also be latent, hidden (for example, excellent abilities for hypnosis). Both the failure to be aware and the misuse of these abilities are dangerous. A person adapts well to hidden, deep layers of information, but how will this turn out? This is exactly the case when, by adapting to other people’s problems, he risks “pulling” them onto himself and getting sick with the same diseases (literally or figuratively) - the Moon shines with reflected light.

The Moon describes variability and inconstancy, increased and unstable emotionality, fluctuating cyclically, and more often - being in a negative phase of vulnerability, recession, crisis. Well, if you have nightmares, painful memories and forebodings, then you are still human, and you have a soul that lives its own life. Sometimes the Moon speaks of depression, depression, and the absence of clearly defined goals and objectives in life. This makes it seem like a “valley of shadows” through which someone sadly wanders, stumbling, towards a future that is equally unclear and joyless.

At the same time, the Moon can also describe the phase of emotional tide, the “full moon” in the inner world (and how a person endures it is another question). Despite its unimportant reputation, for some people the Moon manifests itself quite positively, bringing inspiration and relaxation. In the reality of the unconscious live not only monsters of fears (often symbolically depicted as dragons, snakes, reptiles), but also romantic dreams, deep desires, and creative fantasies. Harmony of magical moments, flow of elusive sensations, thoughts, intuitive understandings. Faced with an abyss of feelings, a person becomes richer and wiser. If he feels at home in the astral spheres, in the realm of images of the unconscious, then he perceives the Moon with interest

It brings vivid dreams, mediumistic experiences, interesting mental experiences refracted in creativity, archetypal images emerging from the inner depths. If this area causes distrust and fear, then the Eighteenth Arcanum is unlikely to bring anything positive to this person.

The moon has a rich symbolism that has a contradictory effect on the conscious and subconscious.

It makes sense to look at this card carefully if it already appears in the layout. It can inspire anxiety and calm with equal success. Sometimes the fragmented, deceptive light, the image of howling dogs and towers towering in the distance seem just like a nightmare. At other times, drops of light falling from the Moon herald peace and tranquility to all things, the pond in which the crayfish hides becomes a symbol of depth and refuge, and the influence of the heavens seems to be an ongoing miracle that must only be appreciated.

And really, what makes a dog and a wolf howl at the moon? Horror, delight, longing, faith that the call will be heard? The third living creature, a cancer, crawling out of the water onto the earth is a symbol of the zodiac constellation Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon. Cancer, a symbol of motherhood, patronized by the Moon (which is why sometimes the water is colored with blood, reflecting the pangs of birth).

Symbolically, this Arcanum represents the process of childbirth: from the warm, safe mother’s womb one has to break out through the narrow gates towards the dazzling light of the world (the next Arcanum is the Sun). The winding road between the two towers is essentially a portal, a path to the realms of the astral plane, powerful and mysterious psychic forces. This is the gate of fear and rebirth, a narrow birth canal. These gates contain danger, pain, and the unknown lurks behind them.

Arcanum Moon is a symbol of a difficult emotional journey, a path through fears, ghosts rising from the pool of the soul. Interestingly, the very center of the constellation Cancer corresponds to the 9th lunar day, the unfavorable influence of which is known to astrologers. This is a day of active delusion, when a person is haunted by illusions and seductions, deceptions and delusions, exposure to negative influences, bad dreams that cannot be trusted. We only receive bad signs and we need to soberly think about and evaluate each one. One feels a mixture of thoughts and feelings, mental heaviness, and the power of internal visions. There is a fight against ghosts, cleansing the pool of the subconscious, the depths of the soul from fears, flaws and secrets. All this is very consistent with the mystery of the Eighteenth Arcanum, when the focus shifts to the astral plane and “reality” suddenly appears there.

At the Tower stage, a person faces threat and danger, the light of the Star gives him faith and fortitude, and the Moon speaks of facing the monsters within himself. Occultly, this Arcanum is interpreted as the Road of Knowledge, leading from the reservoir of human illusions to spiritual liberation through the Gate of Wisdom. Gerd Ziegler writes: “This is the time of the final, and often the most difficult, test. The danger of forgetting your true purpose in the dark is very great.” But lunar shadows and unsteady reflections of genuine knowledge are now still the only available source, and for lack of a better one, with their help one should still get closer to the truth (and not to superstition and prejudice).

Eliphas Levi wrote about this Arcana that everything is closed before ignorance, but everything is open before the seeker. It is believed that the symbol of cancer on the map warns that one should certainly not move back, “into the swamp” (the shell symbolizes the gradual ossification of the mind, which has refused to move forward). You must follow this road to the end, despite fears and seeming hopelessness. It is also believed that the face of the Universal Mind watches from above the outcome of the struggle in the human heart, radiating peace and tranquility, since it knows for sure that sooner or later, in this life or in the next, a person will definitely pass along this road.

Esoterically, the card symbolizes the picture of evolution, reflecting the world of plants, minerals, animal nature that has climbed out of the water onto land (in the foreground of the Arcanum the sea that gave birth to life is symbolically depicted), and man-made things that oppose and defend themselves from the original environment. Looking down at this is the face of the Universal Mind, to whose influence everything is subject. Moreover, what is man-made turns out to be the most fragile - in a mystical sense, the Arcana depicts moonlit fields on the site of Babylon, the road passes between the dead buildings of the disappeared city and melts beyond the horizon. There is an opinion that this card corresponds to the zodiac sign of Pisces - two fish, one of which slowly floats upward, beginning to evolve, and the other, embodying the sphere of the subconscious, forever remains in a dream, at the bottom of the sea, so as not to lose contact with the original source, and fulfills the role of support for a new existence.

The sickle inscribed in the disk is a very ancient symbol of the holiness of the Moon. On steles in the Middle East, created by the Arameans and Phoenicians, the image with a sickle inside a disk is often repeated; in North Africa, especially in the region that was the center of Punic culture, the disk is often depicted under a sickle. The drops falling into the water reflect the legend according to which the sacred Nile is filled with water through the tears of the Moon Goddess.

Psychologically, the towers depicted on the map speak of an unconscious search for protection and control, the desire to cling to once and for all established values, and the ego’s fear of loss of meaning. Esoterically, these two pillars or pyramids symbolize the Pillars of Hercules, behind which, according to the Egyptians, the sun never sets (again, the next Arcanum, to which we get along the winding path of the Moon going beyond these pillars, is the Sun). These towers are outposts of consciousness on the border of the unconscious.

The moon opens the way to the inner space, just as the way to the outer was once open to us.

An ancient tradition is also reflected in the images of the wolf and the dog. According to Zoroastrian myths, during the first degrees of Cancer, the Devil attacked the Creator's creatures, and He restored them and gave them guards - dogs. Therefore, the days of passing the first degrees of Cancer are called dog days. These are days of cleansing from any filth. During this period, no events were held; in Ancient Rome, the Senate was dissolved and public life was suspended. The summer “vacations” began (named after the constellation Canes Venatici - Caniculus). It was in the sign of Cancer that the Sun entered at the moment of the summer solstice 2 thousand years ago, hence the name “Tropic of Cancer”, from the Greek. τροπή - turn, that is, the process of “turning around” the movement of the sun at the solstice (and cancer “backs away”). Dogs, as faithful watchmen, according to the ideas of the ancients, guarded the correct passage of the Moon and the Sun at critical moments. The French name for the hour of twilight “entre chien et loup” - “between a dog and a wolf” - also corresponds with the images of animals on the Arcana; you won’t suddenly be able to figure out who is in front of you. Moreover, the dog and the wolf are symbols of Anubis, the “twilight” deity (neither night nor day), standing on the threshold of life and non-life in his dual guise as a jackal man. In fact, a journey through hell is a descent into the underworld, into the depths of the unconscious (astrologically - the 4th house), a journey through the hidden labyrinths of your soul, among illusions and fears, in order to gain deep knowledge of yourself. The Moon indicates that period of time when the waking consciousness of all living things is turned off, giving the subconscious the opportunity to penetrate into all areas of life, but without comprehending them, but only feeling them. Tongues of divine flame fall on the Earth, immersed in sleep, penetrating souls at a moment when no one can see it. Therefore, every person has the opportunity to return from this journey with a purified and renewed soul. The moon dies in the east, disappears for three moonless nights, and is reborn in the west. Therefore, it symbolizes all wanderers, heroes and liberators who descended into the Lower World for three days and then returned unharmed.

Finally, the number of the Eighteenth Arcana corresponds to the repeatability of the sequence of lunar and solar eclipses throughout the 18-year cycle.

Unstable income, sometimes empty, sometimes thick

Changeable financial situation.

A situation where, having money, a person turns into a violent spender, and then has no idea how to make ends meet and get out of debt.

Financial crisis.

Some aspects of the money issue are unclear, as there are some hidden circumstances. Questionable deals. Unreliable investments.

The ancient interpretation is material enslavement.

Traditionally, this is a card of betrayal (here, “cooling” is combined, because the light of the Moon does not warm, and its “inconstancy”, changeability). She says that in a relationship there is, if not an outright lie, then at least some hidden motives, something that the partner prefers to keep secret. Of course, this is fraught with insincerity, which in turn leads to disappointment. A double game is possible here (from which a person may not get any pleasure, but this is how it happened), an element of deceit and insincerity that always arises when it is impossible to tell the whole truth.

Traditionally, “false excuses” are associated with the Moon - this is precisely the case when it is impossible to tell it like it is. Perhaps the relationship was superficial from the very beginning, or the person was not completely free, and now everything has gone far and it is not clear how to get out of it. Whatever a person’s motives and experiences, the Moon conveys the sad news that he cannot be relied upon, at least at the present moment.

In the worst case, the Moon brings false friends (and hidden enemies), “set-ups,” slander, and insight. Other cards will tell you how painful situations can be. There is a fog of uncertainty and uncertainty in relationships. The Moon may indicate that this is an unstable relationship, with many emotional and sexual ups and downs (and occasional tantrums accompanying them). This card can describe not only the nature of the relationship, but also some phase of it, filled with riddles and guesses, half-confession and omissions, hints of hints and falsely understood words... painful, painful, exciting and frightening, around the bush, when still nothing is exposed. Bella doesn't know who she fell in love with yet.

Less often (with the corresponding surrounding Swords and Cups) scandals, quarrels and discord occur on the Moon. In general, this is rather a card of silence, of what is hidden, secret and unspoken. That's the problem. This is precisely why, on the Moon, people flounder in the quagmire of distorted perceptions, misconceptions, misunderstandings, hidden meanings and motives (their own and others). When a person has a secret that he must remain silent about, or that he simply cannot express because his tongue won’t work, then this is what happens. A characteristic feature of the Moon’s situation is that it is almost impossible to present it clearly and coherently. “He said, not knowing that he knew, and he thought that he knew, and therefore then didn’t say...” - and you feel that the roof is gradually moving down from trying to understand what’s what. In general, the situations described by the Moon can be terribly confusing and painful.

The Moon has another meaning, connecting it with deep instincts and needs, the abyss of unconscious aspirations and yearnings. Mysterious, dubious, bewitching, it has a special dark appeal that affects precisely those aspects of the soul regarding which a person usually pretends that they do not exist at all. And that's one of the reasons why

The Moon is sometimes (not necessarily) an indicator of relationships created on a latent homosexual basis. It touches the hidden part of erotic perception, highlights “blank spots”, brings experiences that a person is very afraid of and which he unconsciously needs. Naturally, he is frightened, does not understand what is happening, but he cannot turn off this road, because “hidden forces of enormous energy are acting on him,” as they say in ancient commentaries. Well, imagine a man who was pricked by a spindle, like a sleeping beauty, and awakened something in him that he did not know, although it was always there in him. He's terribly scared. But this is the path of the Moon - to go into the unknown, through fantasies, instincts and dreams, myths and emotions, fear and trepidation, exploring the most hidden depths, courageously facing the abyss of one’s own feelings and aspirations. They help answer long-standing questions: who am I? where am I coming from and where am I going? what should I do to be happy?

According to the Moon, you need to get acquainted with your subconscious, surrender to the power of your inner instinct, process, this will give you the opportunity to feel harmony and interconnection with the Higher Powers that rule the world. Only your own fear can prevent you from getting closer to your inner truth. But when this Arcanum falls out, a person has usually already come too far to turn back. The Moon can describe the initial phase of such a relationship, when both are nervous, both are scared, they do not yet fully understand their desires, but they feel an instinctive attraction to each other. It will take all their courage to understand how strong their feelings and need for each other are.

Mysterious, intoxicating influences, attractions and temptations travel across the Moon. In astrology, the sign of Cancer, ruled by the Moon, speaks of deep affection. This is not the case when you can say “I love you for this and that” - according to the Moon, we ourselves are not able to really explain what is happening, why the connection exists. It may indicate that this relationship is complicated, secret, hidden, or, at a minimum, not advertised. Or - purely at night, when in the light of day (literally and figuratively) people simply do not intersect and no one knows that they are having an affair. Sometimes - completely ephemeral, a “castle on the sand”, more like a dream than a real relationship.

In some cases, the Moon speaks of a partner being "obsessed" with the questioner (or vice versa), an obsession like the kind that makes a wolf howl at the moon. This is a kind of obsession, a huge instinctive need for another, a blind and silent, inexplicable strong craving, perhaps mixed with pain and suffering, with a feeling of unrequited (or not completely shared) love. There is a danger of despair and even suicide (with appropriate surrounding cards). The second participant in this connection shines with “reflected light” (and does not provide much warmth). He loves because he is loved, his feelings are incomparably weaker, but this does not mean that he is ready to remain on his own at any moment

The Moon has a magnetism that attracts and dominates, and even if the less interested partner is ready at times to howl from anguish (and from loss of power over himself), the other influences his subconscious and will in such a way that the destruction of this connection is not possible. Sometimes the Moon suggests that the “weaker” partner got involved in this relationship only out of fear of loneliness and emptiness, or driven by some other irrational motive combined with weakness of will. One of the traditional meanings of “forced agreement with something unpleasant, concession, compromise” should be understood primarily in this sense - there is not enough willpower to do otherwise.

Sometimes the Moon says that at least one of the two is now feeling bad and scared. He is unsure of himself, afraid of everything, suspects something, and this uncertainty gives rise to all sorts of monsters. He experiences embarrassment, confusion, defenselessness and anxiety, is very worried about something, confused. According to the Moon, a person loses orientation, real connection with people and events as they are, and becomes lost and vulnerable. And the more scared he is, the more he drowns in emotions and slips into patterns of behavior established in childhood, so petty tricks and sobs into the pillow are commonplace here.

Symbols of moisture and fertility, the strength of instincts and emotional depths make this card a sexual accent. This is emphasized in a number of decks, and in many cases has a noticeable effect in practice.

The Moon brings trust to the deepest internal impulses, complete dissolution in irrational experience, including sexual experiences. Just as some people are afraid of sex (to lose themselves, power and control over themselves in it), so other people (and sometimes the same ones) are afraid to step at least in some way beyond the boundaries of ordinary consciousness and go on a mystical flight (or voyage) of the spirit, along the mysterious waves of meaning and silvery paths of revelation, into the abyss of the soul. Both sex and spiritual search are a special state of consciousness, the search for the highest point, the accumulation of what has been acquired and the transition of quantity into quality. That is why the Arcana of the Moon links fears, sexual feelings and immersion in the depths of the soul. Sexuality takes you into another world, sometimes scary, but always creative. Sometimes the Moon is a night of love in its purest form. It brings complete subjection to sensual impulses and emotions, immersion in romanticism and charm, encourages you to completely trust the impulses of passion, the wisdom of ancient instincts, the mighty strength and power of the unconscious.

The partner described by the Moon carries magnetism that acts on the deep side of nature; it envelops, attracts and dominates. Almost maternal care and eternal care emanate from him. He will penetrate the soul as deeply as only Cancers and Mothers can, and with him the most hidden sides of nature will be lived out. The other one yields to him as if under a spell and does not necessarily feel happy, confident and satisfied with himself. It may seem to him that he has followed the “dangerous path of bad influence” (as it is written in ancient commentaries), but in fact he has only surrendered to the power of secret suppressed feelings. It could also be betrayal - to the partner with whom, perhaps, everything was fine in its own way, but these hidden sides remained unused.

It happens that the Moon speaks of a deep psychological crisis or clinical depression, when the help of a specialist is required.
Sleep disturbances, nightmares. Sleepwalking. Lethargy, narcolepsy, coma.

Mental disorders. Hysteria. Fears, persecution mania. Various forms of escapism (including alcohol, drugs). Illusions and hallucinations. In general, dependence on the “world of illusions” - alcohol, drugs, some kind of virtual affairs.

Sometimes on the Moon there are belated reactions to the stress experienced - a person has already taken an important step, the worst is over, it’s time to rejoice, and here the consequences of the experience make themselves felt with all sorts of nausea and aches.

Hidden ailments, especially those related to fluid metabolism. Edema. Incontinence, problems with urination.

Sometimes the Moon indicates the onset of pregnancy. It is believed that in special cases it speaks of heredity, genes (especially maternal ones), which play a role in the state of health or in the course of the disease.

Viruses, infections, epidemics, and, in general, problems of contamination of the environment with pathogens, toxins, or something similar pass quite confidently across the Moon.

It is believed that the inverted Moon can be an indicator of problems with speech (stuttering, muteness or simply very great difficulty with verbal expression). Silence, apathy. Manifestations of autism, depression. Painful reaction to lunar phases, atmospheric changes, increased meteosensitivity.

If the Moon is straight, things disappear, but if the Moon is inverted, they are found. A small deception is revealed before anyone is harmed. Minor mistakes and flaws, trivial miscalculations that are not worth worrying about.

Ending a situation of ambiguity, instability or lies. Loss of illusions. Overcoming unpleasant influences. Perhaps something was discovered in the process of psychotherapy - addiction, disorder, trauma. And perhaps the person discovered that he was wasting energy shadowboxing.

Taking advantage of someone. A goal achieved for free, “for free”, success for which one did not have to pay the true price (and it is not a fact that it is good).

Refusal to accept someone in the entirety of their nature, including irrational qualities and weaknesses. Denial of the existence of the invisible world, clinging to habitual conditioning, militant rationalism and practicality (especially in the face of confusion). A person blocks information coming through subtle channels. Excessive fear of some danger is compensated for and rationalized to the extreme (for example, a person installs all sorts of sophisticated security systems at home, almost exceeding the cost of the home, despite the fact that he is afraid not so much of thieves as of ghosts, which he never knows admitted). Fear of psychic attacks, occult attacks, sorcerers, damage.

Mary Greer writes that an inverted Moon can indicate a person’s encounter with frightening and completely “impossible” circumstances. This could be either a night robbery or an unusually vivid dream in which he was visiting aliens. Feeling of “parallel lives”, memories of past incarnations.

The inverted Moon in ancient interpreters is an indicator of water, river, sea, in bad combinations it speaks of the danger of drowning. Dew, fog, rain, dampness.

With the Jester - a penchant for occult activities, wandering along the roads of the unconscious outside of worldly conditioning (can also manifest itself as a mental illness).

With a Magician - excellent extrasensory abilities and intuition.

With the Priestess - the need to finally speak out and clarify the relationship and situation. The combination may indicate pregnancy. It is also a powerful combination for creativity and working with the inner world. Like the Priestess, the Moon indicates mystery and something secret (just not so sacred, rather intimate, hidden from the eyes of people).

With the Empress - depression due to everyday troubles. Emotional imbalance, typical during pregnancy. Regarding finances - profit, but not as large as expected.

With Death - depression, apathy, loss of strength.

With the Devil is a fairly typical indicator of drug addiction.

With the Star - a good combination, serenity, peace, peace. This is exactly the case when the Moon can be interpreted positively.

With the Sun - confidence replaces anxiety, clarity and insight comes in the place of everything chaotic, hidden and foggy.

With the Three of Wands - independence (according to Guggenheim)

With the Six of Wands - a warning that this is a false path.

With the Two of Swords - self-deception

With the Eight of Swords - complete confusion, confusion and loss

With the Seven of Cups, the meaning of illusions and fantasies, unrealistic ideas increases.

With the Eight of Pentacles - real projects (according to Guggenheim)

Night, the womb of the moon

Myths describing the descent into the Lower World (Orpheus, Odysseus, Inanna, Psyche, Aeneas). Journey to the Kingdom of the Dead as a “chthonic birth”.

Rituals of initiation, dedication, which require overcoming one’s fears

"Battle with the Monster"

Hecate - Greek goddess of magic; a ghost wandering in the night accompanied by Cerberus (the dog guarding the gates of Hell).

"The sleep of reason creates monsters"

The darkest hour is before the dawn.

“You have already come to the knowledge of the truth - and only fear prevents you from crossing its threshold. But you have already gone too far to turn back, you just need to go even further and penetrate to the very essence.”

Movies that defiantly emphasize the Moon. As a rule, they are “tied” to the theme of the Eighteenth Arcana - these are either erotica or horror films, less often something sophisticated and romantic.

The Moon is a card of imagination and dreams, a card of twilight between sleep and reality. Imagination is a wonderful and amazing thing, but it also needs discipline so as not to become too wild. The connection between the words “moon” and “lunatic” is obvious and not accidental. On the map we see a crayfish crawling out of the ocean. The ocean is the place where all life on our Earth originates. The wolf and the dog howl at the moon, reminding us of the wild, uncivilized part of our nature. An open gate is depicted in the distance. The gate is a symbol of penetration into another world, in this case - into the world of higher consciousness, or spirit. The moon is full of ambiguity. Everything is in twilight, in halftones. You are not able to fully see what is happening. The way you perceive the world is based on the images you create, the system of lenses through which you look at reality. Remember that you have the power to change these lenses and change the way you see the world.

Questions to Ask Yourself When Pulling the Moon

• Are you deceiving yourself?
• Are you confused?
• Do you feel like you're heading into the unknown?
• Are you becoming more and more interested in someone or something and moving away from reality?
• Is it time to forgive yourself or someone else?
• Is everything what it appears to be?

Key Ideas

Friends

Reversed: Your interest in the spiritual takes you away from the real. Remember the golden rule: everything is good in moderation.

Studies

Reversed card: You sleep too little, this affects your studies. Reconsider your priorities. Without proper education, you will not achieve the fullness of life that you deserve.

Dating

Reversed: You are deluding yourself about what is really going on in your relationship.

Family

Reversed: The pain of the past still plagues your family. Now is the time to move forward without looking back.

Interests

Health/Appearance

Reversed Card: Apparently it's time to reconsider the most bizarre and wild details of your clothing. Do you really need them? Don't get hooked on complicated diets - this is not the way to become healthy and slim. Eat more healthy foods and less junk food, and increase your physical activity.

Money

Reversed Card: Avoid all "money" projects that look too good to be true. The way it is.

Fortune telling in half a minute

Annie Lionnet. “Tarot. Practical guide."

The crab belongs to both the earth and the sea and reflects the interaction of the conscious and unconscious, mind and feelings.

The two buildings symbolize the conflict of opposites: day and night, light and darkness.

Uncertainty. Oscillations. Intuition. Illusions.

Different decks depict the Moon differently, but the central theme is inevitably the full moon. The moon is associated with the natural fluctuations of the rhythm of life, ups and downs, ebbs and flows, as well as the female cycle. She is also the queen of the night and a symbol of the unconscious. Our soul conceals unknown properties of our inner essence, which are hidden from us by the cover of darkness. Our inner development requires us to discover our dark sides and bring them to light so that we can gain new strength and greater self-confidence.

Symbolism

Interpretation

Stuart R. Kaplan. "Classic Tarot. Origin, history, fortune telling."

Description

Meaning in fortune telling

Reversed meaning

P. Scott Hollander. "Tarot for Beginners."

The Moon says you want to learn how to shape events, rather than be shaped by them.

The Moon corresponds to the number eighteen and the Hebrew letter Tsadeh.

Allegory

Description

Additionally, at the top of the painting below the Moon are two towers (once again reproducing the portal theme). Two animals, usually a dog and a wolf, sit between the towers and howl at the moon. They personify our animal nature, delighted and frightened by the spectacle of the Moon, subject to its influence, and not controlling it.

At the very bottom of the picture there is a pond or lake from which a crab or crayfish crawls out. (Probably cancer as a symbol of the constellation Cancer.) The symbolism here, as in the drops falling from the Moon, lies in water, which is certainly influenced by the lunar cycle.

The entire image shows that although the energy comes from the Moon, its power and influence on the earth and ourselves is greater. In addition, water is a symbol of vitality, but in this case its fluidity, its ability to take the form of a filled container, is emphasized.

Here is the danger you must avoid: you want to learn to shape events, not be shaped by them.

Inner meaning

The moon has a certain magnetism that attracts and dominates. It appeals to our animal nature, acts on the subconscious, on the will, which is not subject to rational thoughts. The only way to avoid this danger is to deliberately take control: you must resist its influence and maintain power over yourself. In a nutshell: to avoid the danger contained in this card, you must learn to constantly use your mind, your consciousness. You will not give in to your instincts, you will not give in to emotions. You learn, by following the path of the Tarot, to draw on your consciousness and develop your psychic abilities. But the time has come to bring these abilities under conscious control. It is the mind that distinguishes people from animals (which are, without realizing it, subject to the influence of the Moon) and from inanimate elements (for example, from the sea, subject to the influence of the Moon). From now on, use your mind or give up your search. You can no longer act on your instincts.

Value in the layout

Reversed or negative: deception and danger, although of lesser importance. Instability, minor mistakes, silence.

Hidden forces of great energy are at work around you. You may not have the strength to control them, but you can avoid their power over you. Watch your every step.

If this card represents the Questioner, then you, whether you realize it or not, have enormous psychic abilities, most of them latent, hidden. So far, you've obviously made very little use of these features. Now is the best time to develop and learn to control them; you will need them in the future. But act wisely. Both misusing these abilities and refusing to use them can lead you into dangerous dead ends.

Mary Greer. "The Complete Book of Reversed Tarot Cards."

This card is associated with synchronicity, intuition, dreams, secrets and symbolism (Carl Gustav Jung described this concept as “something vague, unknown or hidden from us”) The Moon shines with reflected light, and therefore represents the displacement of meaning when one object has the meaning of another . Eli-fas Levi wrote: “There are no secrets in which there would be no place for symbols,” and vice versa. The reality we know is created in the invisible world of dreams and visions - on the astral plane. Inside you live ideas and mental images that have not yet taken their final form. This card describes the fears and illusions that await you on the path of self-development, behind the last outposts of consciousness, in an unknown and mysterious land of shadows. Delusions, deep-seated fears, or even primal terror can appeal to your survival instinct, causing you to act irrationally or, conversely, according to established behavioral patterns. You feel confused and confused, scared and lost. There may be something elusive looming at the edge of consciousness that you just can’t grasp. You are drowning in emotions and floundering in a quagmire of misunderstandings, distorted perceptions, hidden motives, secrets and undercurrents - whether your own or others. On the other hand, you may feel that fate, a current, or an inexplicable desire is leading or attracting you to some as yet unclear goal. Perhaps you, like a crayfish, are clearing the waters of your unconscious, sifting and digesting the debris of the past, or bravely maneuvering between the wild, instinctive and domesticated parts of yourself, fiercely claiming dominance.

If you are at home in the dream reality or on the astral plane, in the realms of the subconscious or collective unconscious, you can be a medium, have out-of-body experiences, write poetry, fiction, engage in various types of therapy, and even guide others through the threshold of death. If you mistrust subjective experience and hidden meanings, you will become frightened of what happens to you and consider it a dangerous illusion. Contemporary tarot artist Brian Williams says that the French call the deceptive shadows of twilight the hour "entre chien et loup" - "between the dog and the wolf." This means that a seemingly dangerous creature can suddenly turn out to be friendly and kind, and vice versa.

Traditional meanings: secret enemies. Secrets, occult powers. Deception, illusions, delusions. Twilight, darkness. Unknown, unknown. Danger, warning. Instinctive fears. Horror. Conspiracies. Scandals, slander, gossip. False friends. Nostalgia. Dreams, dreams. Madness. Navigation.

Reversed Moon

On the other hand, this card can indicate a person's ability to calmly accept adversity, especially when it comes to personal or cultural transformation or spiritual development. If the Moon is inverted, deception and instability are not as strong and threatening as in the direct version. Something hidden may come to light. Secret addictions, traumas or mental disorders that require treatment may be revealed.

When projecting this card onto other people, they appear to you to be daydreamers, under the influence of illusions and self-deception, or overly emotional and unable to take responsibility for their actions. Or you may feel that they intend to harm you through a psychic or occult attack.

On the internal plane, this may be self-deception, or, conversely, an insight into the depths of the psyche, when, in the words of the 19th century mystic Anna Kingsford, “the soul gains inner enlightenment, and darkness runs through its chambers, illuminated by reflections of the sacred.” Acceptance will help you process and purify the experience.

In terms of health, this card is associated primarily with all forms of madness and mental illness. In addition, incontinence or, conversely, retention of fluids, sleep disturbances, neurasthenia, problems associated with the sense of smell, as well as with the limbic system and the survival instinct, may be observed. Also this is alcohol and drug abuse, coma and the dying process.

In the system of magic and shamanism, the Moon is a very important card associated with astral travel, descent into the lower world, dream interpretation, memories of past lives, finding lost things, attuning to lunar cycles and all forms of lunar magic, contact with animals, spirit possession, astral attacks, protection from them and the return of the soul.

Traditional Reversed Meanings: instability, variability, fluctuations, instability. Fluidity, dew, fog, rain. Silence. Impermanence. Irrational changes. Fantastic or visionary ideas. Minor deceptions, minor mistakes. To outsmart or deceive someone. Ambush, blackmail, scam. Overcoming temptation or temptation.

Larisa Moon. "All the secrets of the Tarot."

“What is happening there in this pitch darkness? The blind and dumb, merciless laws of material nature reign there. There, conscious struggle is impossible, victory is momentary and its consequences are insignificant. There, the terrible and mysterious Rock is gathering its ripe harvest...”

Vsevolod Soloviev

Description of the card and its internal meaning

Man, as we know, has dual consciousness. On the one hand, like God, he feels his power, capable of working miracles, on the other, like a fallen Spirit, he struggles in completely hopeless powerlessness. So it was and so it will be. Throughout our lives, we constantly fluctuate between despair and self-confidence. This duality does not allow a person to calmly endure failures and prevents him from completely relying on the Higher Unknown Will. All this constitutes the doctrine of the eighteenth Arcana.

The Moon card in spiritual life represents the temptations of obscured, hidden truth. It describes a situation when a person approaches the very edge of the abyss of the Infinite and gets the opportunity to touch one of the secret sides of this Truth. After all, it is here that the limitless power that attracts our souls is located. The moon has magnetism that affects our animal, natural instincts. To avoid its harmful influence, you should take control of important life processes. You need to learn to maintain power over yourself, constantly using a sober mind and control over your emotions.

In worldly life, the Moon card symbolizes fears, delusions, disappointments and hidden adverse influences.

Connection of the card with other occult sciences

Card meaning

Straight position

If we are talking about a situation, then the Questioner should prepare for the fact that deception, fear, despair, illusions, mistakes, secret enemies, intrigue and gossip will enter his life. In addition, the Moon card warns that a person can become completely dependent on unknown hidden forces.

Inverted position

When describing a situation, this card has the following interpretations: self-deception, instability, minor troubles.

Daniela Chris. "Magic book of Tarot. Fortune telling."

Matches

Description

The bright moon illuminates the blue-violet sky, water, and four card characters. Two animals - a dog and a wolf - sit and howl at the moon. They personify our animal nature, delighted and frightened by the spectacle of the full moon, subject to its influence. In addition, they are the sacred animals of Anubis and Upuat (opener of paths) and with their howls they attract the souls of the dead, being powerful conductors of impulses from the invisible worlds. The horror of the Nile rises from the water - the crocodile god Sebek.

Mythological dossier

Upuat, a god in the form of a wolf, was revered as a guide god, a scout. His epithet is “counselor”, “leader”. Upuat is a warlike deity, his attributes are a mace and a bow. He also had the functions of a patron of the dead; he was called “the first fighter of Osiris.” Often identified with the jackal or the dog Anubis.

In the unsteady light of the moon, all our fears that hide in the light of the sun materialize; the most incredible things begin to seem possible to us. The Moon represents the temptation of hidden knowledge, obscured truth. The lack of complete information causes mutual misunderstanding and conflicts, making it difficult to make correct conclusions. Sleepwalking, which comes from the word moon, means not only this disease, but also madness, insanity. There is a danger of various phobias and mental disorders here. The only way to avoid this danger is to intentionally take control of your feelings, fears and consciousness.

This is the first lesson of the Arcana "Moon". Control your feelings and emotions. In the light of day, carefully analyze the true causes of the fears that cause panic attacks at night. Learn, following the path of the Tarot, to control your consciousness and develop psychic abilities.

The moon is changeable by definition; each of the twenty-nine days of its cycle it changes its appearance, and with it the entire sublunary world changes. The strength of the tides changes, and as the moon grows, the excitability of animals and people increases. It has been established that on new moon days, the greatest number of accidents caused by fatigue and inattention occur, and on the full moon, the number of crimes caused by increased aggressiveness, such as rape and fights, increases. Women's cycles are associated with the influence of the moon, and therefore the full moon has always been considered the time of greatest manifestation of feminine power. At this time, initiation rites and mysteries dedicated to female deities were always held. It is not for nothing that in Christian times it was believed that witches' Sabbaths always took place on the full moon.

It is no coincidence that a young naked maiden sits at the water's edge. The middle, blue part of the picture is water, which is most obviously influenced by the moon. Water is a symbol of vitality, but in this case its fluidity is emphasized, its ability to take the form of a filled container. Besides. Water symbolizes purification, receptivity and the feminine. The girl is naked, which speaks of her purity and youth. She is completely defenseless, she has nowhere to hide and nothing to protect herself from danger. However, there is no sense of horror in it of the surrounding darkness and the monsters hidden in it. Her blue hair symbolizes dreaminess and receptivity. However, she sits on the ground, which indicates her strong connection with reality. The girl does not allow her fears to break out and take over her. She doesn't panic. The girl’s behavior is not at all reckless, but perhaps the most organic in this situation. It is built not on reason, but on intuitive perception. She manages to feel merging with this world not with her mind, but with her gut. She accepts the world with all its fears, horror and illogicality, passes it through herself and feels its harmony. Sebek’s calmness and complete indifference confirms this, because his red hair indicates his readiness for action.

Arcanum "Moon" teaches us not to renounce or hide from the dark side of the world, but to understand that all this is the same natural part of life and without it there is no harmony. After all, the owl - a symbol of wisdom - flies only at dusk.

The girl carefully touches the flowers of the night lotus, born of water and blooming under the light of the moon. Unlike daytime flowers, which follow the sun, nighttime flowers are afraid of sunlight. Just like fragile and unsteady intuitive, subconscious constructions do not withstand the light of solar logic. The timid prompts of our subconscious - premonitions and associations - have not yet acquired a rigid form of thoughts and feelings, and therefore require very careful attention.

This is the next lesson of the Arcana “Moon”: learn to listen to the prompts of your subconscious, develop your mental abilities, which for the most part are in a hidden, latent state. Now is the time to develop and learn to control them; you will need them in the future.

Value in the layout

In a straight position

Advice. Under the influence of this Arcanum it is very useful to work with the unconscious. You are guaranteed to get rid of complexes and phobias, especially with the help of a psychoanalyst.

In an inverted position

Advice. During the period of action of this Arcana, you should not believe promises and promises, make plans or make any wishes - it will not come true anyway.

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Moon in Scorpio as "dark knowledge"
(the abyss of the soul), or the Sun in the 7th house as a symbol of the descent into the Underworld.
MOON
The Moon card introduces us to the mysterious kingdom of Darkness and Night, to the figurative world of the soul, to the world of our dreams, dreams and revelations. The bright side of the Moon is romantic dreams, vivid imagination and artistic imagination. However, this card also has a dark side, opening the way to the very abysses of the soul; this is fear, uncertainty, nightmares, gloomy omens, in general, prejudice in the face of everything unknown, invisible. We feel a similar fear when wandering at night through a dark forest that seemed so safe to us during the day. The darkness that obscures the path has taught us to be afraid. It may also be fear of the terrible demons of antiquity, which in our time have acquired a new name: bacteria, viruses, millirems, becquerels, gas pollution, acid rain.

Rider White Tarot. Theory and practice. Series "Secrets of Predictions". Publishers: AST, Astrel, 2002

Astrological meaning: Fish
The eighteenth card of the Major Arcana is called the Moon. It depicts the Moon rising between two towers (light and dark), a dog and a wolf sitting on opposite sides of the road and howling at the Moon, and a crayfish emerging from the water. The road passes between the towers, through the dead buildings of the city and disappears beyond the horizon. According to legend, the Nile is filled with water due to the tears of the Moon Goddess, which, falling into the river, fill it. Two pillars (towers, pyramids) symbolize the Pillars of Hercules, beyond which, according to the Egyptians, light never sets. The Egyptians also imagined the tropics as dogs, which, as faithful watchmen, prevent the Moon and Sun from passing close to the poles. Crab or Cancer, according to the symbolism of the ancients, means the return movement of the Moon. This card symbolizes the path of wisdom. A person in search of reality emerges from a pool of illusions. After defeating the guardian of the gate of wisdom, he passes through the strengthening of science and theology and follows the winding road that leads to spiritual liberation. This card corresponds to the altruistic sign of Aquarius, which pours two streams of water onto the Earth: the dead water of consciousness and the living water of spirit.
The Tarot drawing depicts a woman pouring water on a desert, from whose moistened soil “blooming nature” grows. The eighteenth Arcanum is called the Moon and is interpreted as “staying” or simply being in the life process during that period of time when the waking consciousness of all living things is turned off, allowing the subconscious to penetrate all spheres of life, but without comprehending them, but only feeling them. The sorceress Moon shines only with the reflected light of the Sun, not bringing the joy of the day, but to those who “understand” her, she can bestow truly holy peace. In the foreground of the Eighteenth Arcana of the Tarot, the sea is depicted, which gave birth to life, and this card corresponds to the zodiac sign of Pisces - the symbol of which is two fish, one of which slowly floats upward, beginning to evolve, and the other, embodying the sphere of our subconscious, forever remains in a dream, at the bottom the sea, so as not to lose touch with the original source, and acts as a support for the new existence.
A cancer crawling out of the water onto the earth is a symbol of motherhood, patronized by the Moon (sometimes the water is colored with blood, reflecting the pangs of birth). Further, on the shore, on opposite sides of a road leading into the unknown, a dog and a wolf howl at the Moon.
Symbolically, this Arcanum represents the process of childbirth: from the warm, safe mother’s womb one has to break out through the narrow gates towards the dazzling light of the cold world. "Luna" waits at this gate. There are dangers, fears, pain, behind them lies the unknown. There awaits you Anubis, the twilight God (neither night nor day), standing on the threshold of life and non-life (before and after life) in his dual guise of a jackal man. In essence, a journey through hell is a journey through the hidden labyrinths of your soul. Hence - such attributes of the Moon as illusions, hysteria, persecution mania, hallucinations, drugs, escape from reality. But the Eighteenth Arcanum is also a bridge between consciousness and the unconscious, since, having examined the drawing of the card, an attentive person will notice that tongues of divine flame are falling on the Earth, immersed in sleep, penetrating into our souls at a moment when no one can see it. Therefore, every person has the opportunity to return from this journey - to return with a purified and renewed soul, which will no longer be afraid of thoughts about the future. A person in a session with a psychoanalyst works according to the “Moon”; his task is to overcome the fear of fear.
In the upright position, the Moon card means the ability to see the hidden, deep. The card indicates increased emotionality, an unstable character, a romantic attitude towards life and fairly developed intuition. In addition, such a person is easily trusted by other people. In general, the Moon bears the imprint of twilight: guesswork, half-confession, ambiguity, hidden motives. Perhaps misunderstood words, unfaithful friends, ambivalent behavior, false claims, insincerity, unknown enemies... Sometimes the card predicts long journeys.
In an inverted position, the Arcana Moon indicates that someone is hiding behind a mask. The card can also be associated with a refusal to accept someone in integrity, unity. In specific cases, the Moon speaks of heredity, genes that led to certain events in life (parents who were once exposed to radioactive radiation caused a tragedy in life
child).
Another meaning of the card is a small deception (exposed before it causes damage), a goal achieved for free, “for free.” You didn't have to pay the true price for it (is that a good thing?). Trivial mistakes.
“You have already come to the knowledge of the truth - and only fear prevents you from crossing its threshold. But you have already gone too far to turn back, you just need to go even further and penetrate to the very essence.”
Papus

The Moon is a card that has different meanings. It indicates intuition, dreams and the unconscious, psychic abilities and dreams. The Moon provides light as a reflection of the Sun, but this light is dim, uncertain and only dimly illuminates the human path towards higher consciousness.

The pond at the base of the card represents the subconscious, and the crayfish that emerge from it represent the often disturbing images emerging from our inner depths. From the pond flows a road that leads between two towers into the mountains over a long distance, showing the way to the unconscious mind.

On either side of the road stand a wolf and a dog, representing our animal nature - the civilized and uncontrollable aspects of our consciousness. The towers at opposite ends represent the forces of good and evil, and their similarity in appearance can cause the difficulty we have in distinguishing them.

Everything about this card seems to echo the other, as if hinting at two possibilities. When we walk along the path, we walk a fine line between the conscious and the unconscious, between civilization, as represented by the domesticated dog, and the forces of nature, represented by the wolf. The astrological sign associated with this card is Pisces - psychic, receptive and mysterious.

The main meaning of the card in the upright position

Keywords

• illusion;
• fear;
• anxiety;
• uncertainty;
• secret;
• dream;
• duality;
• intuition;
• emotions;
• extrasensory perception;
• alchemical processes;
• poet, musician;
• subconscious.

The Moon is the card of illusion and deception, and therefore often indicates times when things are not as they seem. Vigilance and clear perception will be especially necessary to find what is hidden before it is too late. If the other cards in the reading are negative, then the Moon shows that not everything is as wonderful as you think, and there are still hidden forces at play that could hinder your success.

If other cards are generally positive, then the Moon suggests that you are allowing your imagination to take you far away from reality. In both cases, you must open your eyes and see what is really happening. It's time to get rid of illusions, because they carry erroneous judgments and assumptions.

It is generally accepted that the Moon is a negative card. It indicates the manifestation of unpleasant emotions: envy, deception, flattery, hypocrisy, jealousy, conspiracies. The consequences of this can be theft, dismissal from work, dark events in life, betrayal. All this is fraught with hidden danger.

You are engaged in self-deception, or someone is misleading you, preventing you from thinking rationally and wisely, or leading you astray. The line between logical thinking and flight of dark fantasies is almost blurred. The moon promises difficulties, problems and obstacles. Moreover, they are hidden, and it is not clear where and how they will manifest themselves. There is a danger of making a mistake, miscalculating, losing.

The Moon, first of all, warns against tempting fate and being a hero. Daring adventures are not for you.

The card emphasizes that events in your life are not under your control. The influence of external factors can lead to unpredictable outcomes. If you have incomplete information, your conclusions may be wrong. Although the reason for incomplete information is not someone who would hide it from you, and you yourself do not want to accept reality as it is, you are afraid to face the truth.

The Moon is a psychological map of fear of the present and future based on past experiences. Fantasies, images, thoughts and feelings that are periodically suppressed by a person cause internal turmoil. As a result, a person experiences negative blocks in his personality, feeling fear and anxiety. To fix this, you need to undergo a clearing process in which deep memories will be released.

This is the time when you need to dive deep into your soul and eliminate all anxieties, fears, psychological limitations and personality disorders. Many unseen things come to the surface, including secret motives, secret information, and ancient hidden truths.

These newly discovered resources may overwhelm and confuse you, but once you pay attention to them (premonitions, revelations, dreams), they will no longer haunt you. One of the main points on the map is the Path; you have a journey ahead of you, which can turn out to be either astral (to the world beyond the mind) or a simple voyage.

Often the Moon appears in a reading when you are unsure of your purpose or even the path you are on, yet continue on. Perhaps you have lost your way and are now left to walk in the dark, guided only by your inner light and intuition. You need to walk without a clear idea of ​​where you are, where you are going, or where you have been.

The Moon is the card of intuition and psychic powers, so let go of your conscious mental blocks and let your intuition guide you. Your dreams and inner drives will lead you to higher levels of understanding, if you start listening to yourself, you will be able to interpret the veiled messages of the unconscious.

Inverted position

Keywords

• liberation from fear;
• misfortune;
• confusion;
• self-deception;
• true;
• abuse;
• whims;
• witchcraft;
• deception;
• enemy;
• shadow;
• restoration of self-control.

Since Pisces is the ruling sign of the Moon, the reversed card represents visions, illusions, madness, genius and poetry. In the most negative context, this can be a very scary card, warning of hidden enemies, mental illness, alcohol addiction or a bad drug trip.

The card shows the presence of primitive forces and the dark side of the soul. Intuition and creativity are blocked, and a sexual block is possible. Complete chaos is contained by medicines, prisons, locks. Crime is prevented, but it does not stop. The Moon often appears in a reverse position when there is madness and disorder, turmoil and drug addiction. At its best, the Moon is a card of genius, mental breakthroughs, amazing creativity, powerful magic and intuition.

The card warns that a time of emotional and mental testing will come when you will do what seems reasonable to you. But after a while you will wonder, “Why did I do this? It does not make sense!". Your brain will play tricks on you more than once, and therefore now is not the right time to make decisions that require rational thinking and a clear head.

The Moon in a reverse position shows that you have recently experienced a time of self-deception, illusion, fears and anxiety, but these negative energies are beginning to subside. You may also have been dealing with some deeper emotional issues that have been lying beneath the surface for a long time.

These problems prevent you from moving forward. To overcome this, it is necessary to confront internal fears and assumptions in order to gain a sense of direction and self-confidence. You need to believe in yourself and know that it is possible to create balance in your life. You may also find that your dreams and illusions are sending you important clues as to which direction to take. Pay attention to the subtle, subliminal messages that come to you in this way.

The Moon in its reverse position highlights that you are in a more psychic and intuitive phase than usual, however the feelings you experience can be confusing and easily misunderstood. However, don't ignore them, pay attention to them, or come back to them later when you have a clearer mind.

Love and personal relationships

Direct position

In the context of love, the Moon is the Arcana of betrayal, inconstancy, and indifference. Relationships live in lies, secrets, secrets and deceit.

The Moon warns about the partner’s insincerity; perhaps he is not free, or initially played a double game, and now, not knowing how to get out, he uses false excuses. The card indicates a lack of stability in relationships, emotional and sexual ups and downs, understatement, riddles and phrases with double meanings.

The Moon is a card of silence, which complicates relationships because problems arise from the secret and hidden. Partners are stewing in delusions, misunderstandings, and secret motives and thoughts.

The Moon is also associated with deeper needs and natural instincts. Here, those strings of the soul are involved that a person either does not want to notice or hides. Relationships may be homosexual in nature. A person experiences new erotic sensations without fully understanding what is happening to him, but hidden powerful forces guide him, and he is no longer able to leave this road.

Moon - Arcana of strong sexual desire, animal passion, temptations and powerful attraction. Partners often experience fear of unfamiliar inner truth, not fully understanding their carnal desires. The card speaks of obsession, or magical attraction to a person, accompanied by pain and suffering.

Inverted position

In the reverse position, the card suggests lies and dishonest relationships. The deception begins to reveal itself, turning the true essence of the relationship inside out. You can engage in self-deception yourself, turning a blind eye to the obvious facts about your relationship and partner. You would rather remain blinded than accept the unpleasant truth. This situation leads to groundless jealousy, mistrust and uncertainty. You are constantly waiting for a trick from your partner. You are held back by fear for your future together, fear of undisclosed mysteries and secrets.

For single people, Arcanum is an indicator of restoration of determination and self-confidence. You've had a period of uncertainty, and now it's time to regain your composure and be ready for a new wave of love.

The Moon also admits that you are deliberately ignoring the signs, inner voice, and intuition that your partner is not really right for you. Listen to yourself, don’t be led by the fear of being alone.

Career

Direct position

The card in the context of work foreshadows misunderstandings between colleagues and superiors, which can cause problems or misunderstandings. Perhaps complete information is being hidden from you, or you have unreliable facts to make important decisions. You may have overlooked some aspect of your work, such as starting a company, and this could be detrimental to your bank account and business.

The Moon is not a benevolent card in the professional field. Beware of your business partners and competitors; do not share your business plans with anyone. There may be fraud, intrigue, confusion in relationships with colleagues, tension, and anticipation of a catch. And also hidden thoughts, betrayal, lies, fear of losing.

Creative people belong to the Moon: artists, poets, sculptors, fashion designers. Often psychotherapists, mediums, people associated with the astral plane, the occult, and magic.

Inverted position

Inverted, the Moon indicates a block and limitations in any of your endeavors. Better not try, you will fail. If earlier there were problems and misunderstandings at work, now any uncertainty or instability will begin to balance out.

Self-confidence, rationality and logic in decision-making will appear, and you will feel more confident in your direction. Deception, if any, will be revealed. The missing facts and information will complete the overall picture. Beware of ill-wishers, you are walking on the edge, listen to your intuition. The card especially now advises against taking out loans.

Health

Direct position

In the context of health, the Moon can mean mental problems, anxiety disorders, fears and depression when qualified help is needed. Possible insomnia, nightmares, sleepwalking, lethargic sleep. There is a connection with alcohol and drugs. For women, the Moon indicates a problem related to the menstrual cycle, or hormonal imbalance. The card also indicates a possible pregnancy, where the mother's genes will affect the health of the unborn child.

Inverted position

The reversed card is for the most part a positive card in relation to health, as it can indicate the resolution of mental health problems such as depression or anxiety. However, it shows an inability to separate reality from fantasy, and if it is surrounded by negative cards, then joint disease or paranoia is possible, which progresses.

Problems with the urinary system, incontinence, swelling. Speech problems, stuttering, silence, apathy, autoimmune diseases are allowed. A sensitive reaction to the phases of the moon and atmospheric pressure is especially pronounced in hypertensive patients.

In general, the Moon indicates stability, accuracy and correctness in diagnoses and subsequent treatment.

The Moon relates to a deep state of sensitivity and imaginative impressionability. Here people dream and go into trances, have visions and receive prophecies, communicate with psychics and experience deep mystical and terrifying realities beyond the ordinary senses.

In a conscious state, a person cannot always control everything that happens to him. The Moon card represents the ultimate test of the integrity of the soul, where the membrane between personality and the unknown is removed and a drop of individuality is returned to the ocean of existence. What happens next is between the soul and its creator.

In this regard, the card advises listening to your body, trusting your instincts and intuition. Rely on your inner resources as your best source of support and security. Your inner voice will unmistakably support you if you do not interfere or try to control what you perceive.

Fight your fears and anxiety, because they may be a figment of your imagination. Do not be afraid of the interference and influence of occult forces on you. The best thing would be to meditate. Just try to be a witness. Do nothing: let nature decide and act for you. This will be your best option in many situations.

• Someone is deceiving you.
• Manipulator.
• You are not in control of the situation.

• Black magic.
• The answer is unknown at this time.
• Things are hidden from you.

• You're out of reach.
• To be out of someone's league.

• You must rest.

• Nightmares

With the King of Cups:

• Emotional trauma.
• Massive headache or migraine.
• Too much water.