Cards with yods are aside from the Moon, the Tower and three aces. The sole ace that dooes not depict them is the ace of pentacles. You could see the Tower as divine intervention to get you on the right path... a helping hand. And is not that what "yod" means? The aces, all four of them show a hand giving you an opportunity to help you on you way: an inspirational idea with the ace of wands (EUREKA!), a clear insight with the ace of swords, a feeling of love that gives you faith with the ace of cups. Therefore the road of the moon, the night, dreams could also be seen as a divine helping hand to help you on your life's path.

But why is it missing from the ace of pentacles? Because the divine helping hand cannot materialize? And yet we see a literal divine hand holding the ace of the suit up in the sky, just like any other aces.

Btw talking about helping hands... the hands in the sky... the sword and pentacle have a hand on the left side of the card, whereas the cups and wands is held by a hand on the right side of the card. Since I have been working on dreams and what happens in the brain while dream sleeping only yesterday (with the Moon as card for the day...hmmmm), I see the left or right side of the divine hand as "left brained" or "right brained". Creativity, inspiration and what we cannot put into words such as emotions belong to the right brain, and this fits the side of the hands (although the right brain controls the left hand physically, but I guess an ethereal hand would be directed by the same side?). Rational thought and relating to matter and reality is mastered by the left brain, the left divine hand?

Maybe the four cards together might be seen... your worst fears might come true in the nightmare of the Tower, but it will be to your benefit, otherwise the night and dreamworld may inspire you, heal your heart, or give you insight (the latter though only after waking up... because left brain cognition is shut off neurologically when we dream).

Been looking crosseyed at every RW card... but I did find another clear Yod, on the Wheel of Fortune, in between T and A.   I thought of looking for such an actually written yod after doing a bit of research on yods with the Toth deck, where Crowley identified The Hermit as Yod himself. There is no yod depicted on the image itself, but written at the bottom of the card. So, that inspired me to go look at what was written on RW cards.

There are a few cards that do not have actual yods as in those other mentioned cards, but at least give a hint of them possibly coming to fruit or having been used with success... The Lover's right tree for example. Almost all the wands on the suit carry leaves that turned into yods in the ace. Perhaps the World's circle is made of yods? Or what about triumph crowns? Are they made out of yods? One could argue that the page of Wands is carrying a yod on his hat, and what does the beggar of the 6 of pentacles carry in the pocket of his blue coat? Could that be a yod?

Lastly, I think there's one more card that has the Moon in it, not as a moon in the sky, but as one of the astrological symbols on the quilt of the 9 of swords. Of course that card depicts a woman waking from a night terror still in despair.

Going to check what I can find for myself on the moons and yods in the Toth deck

Great findings Sweetsunray!! I hope you gave your eyes a rest overnight

As for the Lovers,  the tree on the right (the one behind the man) I believe these are 12 leaves or possibly fruits depicting the 12 astrological signs. I know we are digressing here, but the two trees in the Lovers card are the trees of life: the one behind the man has 12 fruits - for sustenance - and the one behind the woman is the tree of knowledge for good and evil.

But I am with you where the Wands are concerned; the falling leaves off the rods can be seen as Yods too and I do like your explanation of the Yods being the divine intervention on the other cards.

This is enlightening isn't it? Unlike the exchange that took place yesterday with a certain thread.....

I would like to see some of the examples on the Thoth deck should you find any Yods there.

Good day to you.

I agree about the Lovers. You could see them as yods only once they fall from the tree "perhaps".

Well, I already went through the Toth deck for yods and moon signs. There are an awful lot of moon symbols on the Toth cards. Crowley used the astrologoical planet and moon positions and aspects for each card to in part determine the influence. And every minor at least depicts the two interacting planets (+ moon) that influence it. There are no yods on the Tower with the Toth deck, but they are on the Moon, Ace of Wands, and Aeon (Universe) for example.

I only went through it to pick out the cards. Will take a while to figure out the Moon related cards (as there are so many) and then the Yod cards, which ought to include the Hermit (as Crowley calls him Yod) and the Lovers (because in the Toth deck it's the Hermit giving the blessing over the couple). I think I also have to go through some of his ritual writing, because I suspect the Tarot cards may relate to that... which is some of the hardest ritual reading I've done since a long while.

B studying the Toth Moon more regarding the moon phase it depicts, I can now understand why RW has a sun together with the moon crecent. We see the waning moon in the early hours of the night, just before and after sunrise until 9am.

The best time to have a chance to recall our dreams are in the early hours before the morning. We sleep more lightly, less deeply and therefore wake up more easily. Normally our short term memory shuts off while we dream sleep. If we go on sleeping we won't remember the dream we had. But if we wake up during the REM sleep we do recall our dream, because the short memory is forced to kick back into action. The shutting off of this short term episodic memory is a way from the brain to seal ourselves from the outer world, not just physically (we are paralized and hardly don't receive input from outside), but also in our mind and memory. That way our rational perceptions of the world cannot interfere with the dream process, and we accept the weirdest situations without question and are open while dreaming to the symbolical and methaphorical language of the dream where nothing is what it seems when we wake up afterwards and ask ourselves what it all was about.

So for me, both cards suggest to look for dreams in help, and depict the best time at night when we will most likely remember our dreams to figure them out afterwards.

Coincidentally, you are an expert dream interpreter, so your view might be slightly biased?    Just joking. I found your explanation quite interesting in all counts.