Card 18

The Moon

Brief Description

The Moon depicts a liminal scene of a sea-demon half in water, symbolizing the boundary between conscious and subconscious. The moon's influence intensifies dreams, illusions, and subliminal messages, calling attention to intuition and hidden material. Upright, the card warns of deception and manipulation as well as the potency of inner guidance. Reversed, it signals suppressed feelings, secrets surfacing, internal confusion, and an awakening to reality.

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Card Name

The Moon

Description

A sea-demon rests his head on the shore in peaceful slumber. Half in and half out of the water, he is in a twilight state of consciousness. Meanwhile, the moon overhead influences the demon's dreams with wild intensity.

Upright Meaning

Intuition. Illusions. Subconscious thought. Subliminal messages. Dreams. Manipulation. Deception.

Reversed Meaning

Suppressed feelings. Secrets coming to the surface. Internal confusion. Waking up to reality.

Visual Description

A large anthropomorphic moon face, set inside a crescent, hangs near the top with radiating rays and teardrop-shaped droplets falling below. Two stone towers stand on either side in the midground. In the foreground a horned green creature with bat-like wings reclines on a shoreline, showing crab-like pincers and a tentacled tail dipping into the water. The card bears the Roman numeral XVIII at the top and the title THE MOON at the bottom.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Patrick Valenza

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