18-The Moon – Reversed Rider Waite Deck

Your Chosen Card – The Moon Reversed Rider Waite Deck

When reversed, the Moon can indicate that you are about to emerge from a period of confusion or uncertainty. Many readers regard the inverted Moon card as posing milder problems than the card upright. Sometimes the reversed Moon appears when a female querent is facing gynecological difficulties.

Keywords Reversed: Confusion, deception, error, disillusionment, lack of clarity, unreality, nebulous thinking, apprehension, fearing the worst, misunderstanding, darkness, loneliness, bad dreams, depression, insecurity, hidden enemies, ambiguity, instability, intoxication, substance abuse, the dark side, fluctuating circumstances, failure to keep promises, concerns about women’s health; things that go bump in the night.

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)

18. The Moon: Things That Go Bump In The Night

When The Moon is reversed 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 reversed 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
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Complete Book of Tarot: The eccentric and brilliant occultist Aleister Crowley (whom the press called ‘the worst man in the world’) also broke with the Golden Dawn. 12 Toward the end of his life, Crowley decided to produce a tarot deck that reflected his years of study and practice of esotericism. Enlisting the aid of the artist Lady Freida Harris, Crowley collaborated with her from 1938 to 1943 to transform his ideas into reality. He wrote a companion book for the deck called The Book of Thoth to explain the intricate symbolism of the cards. Crowley’s encyclopaedic knowledge of occult disciplines is reflected in Lady Harris’s paintings; the Thoth deck has become a favorite among scholarly occultists who enjoy the philosophy, mythology, occultism, and metaphysics underlying this magnum opus.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: The lunar energy myth: you must leave your cards overnight in the moonlight so they can absorb psychic lunar vibrations.

Portable Magic: Above the three bands of the active elements that surround the unmoving earthly realm are the seven bands of the astrological planets, nesting one inside the other. These circular bands are best conceived as transparent spheres, but are represented in two dimensions as rings in ancient drawings and woodcuts of the cosmos. From the lowest to the highest, they are the spheres of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

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Portable Magic: Above the three bands of the active elements that surround the unmoving earthly realm are the seven bands of the astrological planets, nesting one inside the other. These circular bands are best conceived as transparent spheres, but are represented in two dimensions as rings in ancient drawings and woodcuts of the cosmos. From the lowest to the highest, they are the spheres of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.