The Moon (tarot card)
The Moon (XVIII) is the eighteenth
Description
The card depicts a night scene, where two large pillars are shown. A
Interpretation
According to
Waite writes that the Moon card carries several divinatory associations:[3]
18.THE MOON--Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error. Reversed: Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error.
In
Alternative decks
- In the "Flemish Deck" by Vandenborre, the moon shows a woman seated in the right-hand corner with a tree in the left hand corner. The Moon is directly above her. She is shown with a distaff in her right hand and spinning thread with her left hand.
- In the 17th century French Vieville tarot deck, instead of the above scene there is an older woman beside a tree, spinning with a spindle and distaff as the Moon shines above.
In Other Media
In the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, tarot cards are used to name the character's powers, which are called 'Stands'. One of the characters in Stardust Crusaders, Imposter Captain Tennille, has a stand named Dark Blue Moon.
The Persona series includes various characters represented by tarot cards. In Persona 5 The Moon card belongs to Yuuki Mishima, a secondary character.
In the Adventure Time miniseries Stakes, one of the members of the Vampire King's court is named after The Moon.
In The House of the Dead, each of its bosses in the mainline series are named after the Major Arcana Tarot Cards (excluding The Devil.) The final boss of its fifth installment, House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn, is named after The Moon card.
References
- ^ "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: Being fragments of a Secret Tradition under the Veil of Divination".
- ^ Waite, A. E. The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: Being fragments of a Secret Tradition under the Veil of Divination. London, W. Rider, 1911.
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- ^ "A Taste of Tarot: Pisces and The Moon". Tarot.com. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- Arthur Waite
- A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot: Being fragments of a Secret Tradition under the Veil of Divination. 1910
- Juliette Wood, Folklore 109 (1998):15–24, The Celtic Tarot and the Secret Tradition: A Study in Modern Legend Making (1998)
External links
- The History of the Moon Card from The Hermitage.
- The Moon from Joan Bunning's Learning the Tarot: A Tarot Book for Beginners
- The Meaning of The Moon Card in Various Reading Contexts from tarot practitioner Lizzie Burgess
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