Moon

75. Ruler of Flux and Reflux, Child of the Sons of the Mighty. / ק / Pisces（“Book T”）

“Tabulated Rules”

Dissatisfaction, voluntary change (as opposed to 13 — Death). Error, lying, falsity, deception. (The whole according whether the card is well or ill-dignified, and on which it much depends.)

《PKT》

Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error.

(Reverse) Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error.

“A Manual of Cartomancy”

I. World of Human Prudence

Half-light, mutation, intellectual uncertainty, region of illusion ; false-seeming.

II. World of Conformity

Sufficing Grace ; the soul mourning over the sadness of material life and the lapse into matter.

III. World of Attainment

Spiritual fantasy.

“The Quest of the Golden Stairs”

The Magic Mirror—Dreams, the surface of things, reflection, nature, memory, travel, roving: “There is one straight road in Faerie, and it is the path of the Moon” (Quest, 4).

“Steps to the Crown”

The soul seeks earth for its refuge, and it finds asylum for a period, but the great terror is still without.

《絵的な鍵》

【月】 【夜】 【池】 【サソリ】 【オオカミ】 【犬】 【will-o’-the-wisp】 【塔】 【山】 【道】 【野原】 【尻尾】

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👉 ラベル：月

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“The Tarot Trumps”

Mere also is a river but it is the troubled waters of Night, wherein is to be described a crayfish, counterpart of the Scarabeus. From the water’s edge winds the dark path of toil, effort and possible failure. It is guarded by the threatening watch-dogs, seeking to intimidate the wayfarers, while in the distance the barren hills are surmounted by the frowning fortresses still further guarding the way to attainment. It is the path of blood and tears in which fear, weakness, and fluctuation must be overcome. The colours are dark crimson, reddish brown, brownish crimson and plum colours — but their sombre hues are lightened by the translucent faint greens and yellows to be found in their counterparts.

《PKT》

The distinction between this card (of Waite-Smith deck) and some of the conventional types is that the moon is increasing on what is called the side of mercy, to the right of the observer. It has sixteen chief and sixteen secondary rays. The card represents life of the imagination apart from life of the spirit. The path between the towers is the issue into the unknown. The dog and wolf are the fears of the natural mind in the presence of that place of exit, when there is only reflected light to guide it.

The last reference is a key to another form of symbolism. The intellectual light is a reflection and beyond it is the unknown mystery which it cannot shew forth. It illuminates our animal nature, types of which are represented below—the dog, the wolf and that which comes up out of the deeps, the nameless and hideous tendency which is lower than the savage beast. It strives to attain manifestation, symbolized by crawling from the abyss of water to the land, but as a rule it sinks back whence it came. The face of the mind directs a calm gaze upon the unrest below; the dew of thought falls; the message is: Peace, be still; and it may be that there shall come a calm upon the animal nature, while the abyss beneath shall cease from giving up a form.