18-The Moon – Upright Rider Waite Deck

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Your Chosen Card – The Moon Upright Rider Waite Deck

When upright, the Moon suggests that circumstances may be elusive, unclear, confusing, fluctuating, or unsteady at this time. The Moon has a dark side, always hidden from human view. Individuals under the influence of drugs or alcohol can cause problems. Important information may have been misunderstood or may not yet be within your grasp. Unseen influences may be at work, and matters are likely to look different in the light of day. You may be in one phase of a cycle, and only with the passage of time will the next phase reveal itself. Don’t jump to conclusions or act on impulse. Be sure you have accurate and verifiable information before making a major decision.

Keywords Upright: Illusion, mystery, haziness, unseen influences, intuitive knowledge, things are not what they seem; voluntary change, phases, cycles, dreams, imagination, psychic awareness, unconscious knowledge, introspection, gut instincts, the menstrual cycle, facing one’s fears.

Key XVIII: The Moon
Myths/Archetypes: The Moon Goddess. Hecate, gatekeeper between the worlds and the Queen of the Night. Diana, goddess of the moon, birthing, and the hunt.
Dates of Pisces: 18 February–19 March (tropical); 14 March–13 April (sidereal)
Astrology: Pisces, the Fishes (a Water sign ruled by Jupiter and Neptune)
Numerology: 9 (The Hermit) = 1 + 8 (The Moon)

Rider Waite: Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error; (R) instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error.

When The Moon is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If The Moon is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Moon is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for The Moon using cards from the Rider Waite Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.

Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot
Book Details
Complete Book of Tarot: In this card, a woman sits blindfolded on the shore of a body of water. She holds aloft two swords, evenly balanced. Above her hangs a crescent moon, symbolizing her changing emotional state. She may be trying to resolve conflicting feelings or attempting to choose between evenly matched options, represented by the dual swords. The tarot appears to be saying that it can help us to sort out our feelings, clarify our choices, and assist us in making more reasoned decisions. The eighteenth-century French occultist who popularized tarot, Etteilla, considered the Two of Swords as a card of rapport and affection, so the tarot may be also saying that it can bring new friendships into our lives.

Tarot Books

Creative Tarot: The Golden Dawn had probably the most influence on our contemporary understanding of the tarot. For this group of magicians and mystics, it was one tool of many in their magical system that pulled from sources like the Rosicrucians and the Kabbalah. One of the Golden Dawn’s founders, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, wrote the first guide to the tarot in England. The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling and Methods of Play, published in 1888, the same year the Golden Dawn came into existence, established tarot as a magical tool, and standardized the deck (or tried to—variations soon emerged) into the four suits of Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles.

Complete Book of Tarot: Fact 4: The tarot is an independent symbolic system. It has much in common with the symbolism of astrology, alchemy, Kabbalah, and so on, but you don’t need to know these other systems to make use of the cards. As Arthur E. Waite noted, ‘True tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.’ 5 That said, there are certain basic symbols that appear commonly in most modern tarot decks. These include the symbolism of numbers and the use of the four classical elements: Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. In addition, certain decks are grounded in the Kabbalah or astrology, for example, and they are dedicated to devotees of these esoteric disciplines. When deciding on a deck to use, it is useful to become familiar with the symbolism the artist has employed in illustrating the cards.

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Complete Book of Tarot: Fact 4: The tarot is an independent symbolic system. It has much in common with the symbolism of astrology, alchemy, Kabbalah, and so on, but you don’t need to know these other systems to make use of the cards. As Arthur E. Waite noted, ‘True tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.’ 5 That said, there are certain basic symbols that appear commonly in most modern tarot decks. These include the symbolism of numbers and the use of the four classical elements: Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. In addition, certain decks are grounded in the Kabbalah or astrology, for example, and they are dedicated to devotees of these esoteric disciplines. When deciding on a deck to use, it is useful to become familiar with the symbolism the artist has employed in illustrating the cards.