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The Moon Tarot Card Meaning
The Moon is card XVIII of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of illusion, intuition, the unconscious; reversed, of clarity emerging, release of fear. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.
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Upright meaning
“Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: illusion, intuition, the unconscious, dreams, uncertainty.
Reversed meaning
“Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: clarity emerging, release of fear, truth revealed.
The archetype
The deep unconscious — dreams, fears, the night-sea journey; truth seen by moonlight.
Astrology
Correspondence: Pisces.
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