Western Tarot symbolism
The Moon
A path into uncertainty lit by reflection and shadowed by fear.
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Divinatory systems arrange signs into patterns of meaning. Explore the cards, symbols and correspondences described in particular works, and examine how their writers explain interpretation.
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Western Tarot symbolism
A path into uncertainty lit by reflection and shadowed by fear.
Baughan’s historical astrology
Baughan describes the moon as a principal luminary and assigns its house or houses to Cancer.
Baughan’s historical astrology
A calculated position used in the interpretation of a nativity.
Western Tarot symbolism
A figure pours the water of life beneath one great and seven lesser stars.
Western Tarot symbolism
Childlike directness and renewed consciousness under a bright sun.
Baughan’s historical astrology
Baughan describes the sun as a principal luminary and assigns its house or houses to Leo.
Western Tarot symbolism
Collapse interpreted as the breaking of a false house of thought.
Western Tarot symbolism
The final trump as fulfillment, cosmic harmony, and conscious completion.
Baughan’s historical astrology
The circle of twelve equal signs that orders planetary placements.
Western Tarot symbolism
A shared raising of cups gives the source an image of completion and merriment.
Western Tarot symbolism
A monastery sculptor is explicitly compared with the Eight's earlier stage of work.
Western Tarot symbolism
A pierced heart with cloud and rain makes division central to the brief description.
Western Tarot symbolism
A figure among three planted staves watches ships from a cliff.
Baughan’s historical astrology
An angular relationship in the book’s fivefold scheme of aspects.
Western Tarot symbolism
Two figures pledging cups are joined by a caduceus and a winged lion-head emblem.
Western Tarot symbolism
Dancing and an endless cord coexist with a less cheerful list of messages and troubles.
Western Tarot symbolism
Balanced swords accompany an explicitly qualified account of concord.
Western Tarot symbolism
A globe and two staves place a solitary figure above a battlemented outlook.
Baughan’s historical astrology
Baughan describes venus as favourable and assigns its house or houses to Taurus and Libra.
Baughan’s historical astrology
Baughan associates Virgo with the belly and the colour black speckled with blue.
Western Tarot symbolism
Movement held against equilibrium within a changing universe.