Western Tarot symbolism
The Moon
The Moon lights a path between towers while a dog, wolf, and creature from the water occupy the foreground. The commentary calls this the life of imagination apart from spiritual life. It interprets the animals as fears and emerging tendencies under reflected intellectual light. The oracle list adds hidden danger, deception, and error.
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Principal account
LiteraryThe Moon lights a path between towers while a dog, wolf, and creature from the water occupy the foreground. The commentary calls this the life of imagination apart from spiritual life.
Further detail
LiteraryIt interprets the animals as fears and emerging tendencies under reflected intellectual light. The oracle list adds hidden danger, deception, and error.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. Its symbolic descriptions and divinatory lists are distinct registers, and neither provides a guaranteed prediction.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
apart from life of the spirit. The path between the towers is the issue into the unknown. The dog and the wolf are the fearsOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Western Tarot symbolism; active reader leaf 77
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- IMJ-0149-E001
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- IMJ-0149-E001-P0077
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Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Moon.—Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error. Reversed: Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error. 19. The Sun.—Material happiness,Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Western Tarot symbolism; active reader leaf 149
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- IMJ-0149-E001
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- IMJ-0149-E001-P0149
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- 155
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- 149
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