18-The Temptress – Reversed Salem 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)

Element: Water

When The Temptress is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If The Temptress is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Temptress 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 Temptress using cards from the Salem 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.

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Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot: If you have reached this point in the book, you should have a sense of the origins and history of the tarot, how it developed as a card game in Renaissance Italy and how it spread to France where eventually it became popularized as a means of divination in the eighteenth century. You should also be familiar with the three most popular categories of tarot decks—the Marseille, Waite-Smith, and Crowley-Harris Thoth tarot—and how they differ from so-called oracle and fortune-telling decks.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: Mary Greer would call the Moon Mother Teresa’s ‘personality card’ and its further reduction to 9 (1 + 8), her ‘soul card.’ If the sum of the birth digits happens to be a number between 1 to 9, then the personality and soul cards are the same.

Tarot for Beginners: Reversed, this card can point to hidden agendas on the part of others, or even hidden from yourself in your own subconscious. Either way, be careful about whom you entrust with emotional truths at this time.

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Portable Magic: It might be assumed that this list of planets is to be assigned to the Double letters in its order, but it has another hidden purpose. It is intended to illustrate to the initiated the relationship between the natural order of the planets a n d the order of the seven days of the week, to each of which is assigned one of the planets. The natural order of the planets is based on their apparent speeds of motion across the heavens. From quickest to slowest, it is Moon,