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sweetsunray


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I've been going through the Toth deck for moons... and I split it into 3 groups

The first group, shows shows a moon either in the sky or as part of the attributes. The second group has the astrological moon symbol depicted as one of the many elements. And the third group are those cards under the astrological ruling of a moon aspect.

For GROUP 1:
The Moon
The Priestess: her headdress + the Priestess is ruled by the moon
The Empress: two moon crescents, waxing + waning, in the background, and a crown like that of the Priestess
Adjustment (Justice): two moon crescents, waxing + waning, in the sword lady justice is holding
Art (Temperance): the heart of the angel looks like a dark crescent, surrounded by both full and dark moons + two waxing moon crescents at the top of the card.
The Star: a large, pink, full moon in the sky background
Ace of Swords: the sword is the same one that lady justice holds in the Adjustment card.

The RW also has the moon in the Moon and Priestess, and in both they are depicted in a similar way. Not surprisingly since female intuition is often seen to be linked with the moon. But the Empress is very different from the RW Empress. In the Toth deck with the blue hue she always reminds me more of Maria rather than an Empress. Crowley's Empress seems like a priestess who is also the reigning queen. She even has a similar crown, except that it also has the worldly, kingly cross on top of it. Of course in Corwley's priestess we don't see a priestess but the Goddess Isis. It's like 3 moon phases are presented on this card: waxing moon, full moon and waning moon. I think Crowley saw the moon's influence here from a fertility view as well as being a symbol of femininity.
With Adjustment and Ace of Swords we see the two moon crescents of waxing and waning moon as part of the sword. I think it symbolizes how lady justice and the ace of swords can cut through the moon's illusions and see the truth.
In Art I think the moon is used to denote extremes. At night we lose the sight of colours: there's dark, light and shady in between. The Angel in Art shows this bluish (colourless) night dark arm against a white one, same for the faces. In the card we see opposites being mixed (fire with water), and I think this card in Crowley is not just blending these extremes, but reminding us that differences and opposites are a mere illusion, and that all is one...
The Star's full pink moon gives the world a magical otherworldly but serene and beautful atmosphere. Full moon is also seen as the fertile moment within a woman's moon cycle, when a woman is seen by most religions as "clean" (and that is what the woman does, cleaning). Fertility also refers to time for new ideas, fertile plans... promises succes. The card can mean "dreams come true", and the dreamworld is ruled by the moon.

Note also how all of these cards are enveloped in a haze of night blue



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sweetsunray


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Moon GROUP 2 for Crowley Toth:  

Fool: the bag full of coins behind him all have an astrological sign on them... one of the coins is the moon symbol. At point 0 everything is possible, and the moon is just one of the many things.

Then there are three disk cards, and it seems strange that cards about the material world would carry moon symbols.

5 disks: one of the disks has a waxing moon symbol on one of the 5 disks on the upside-down pentagram. The card's supposedly ruled by Mercury in Taurus: stubborn, restricted speech, heavy mind, plodding thoughts, catching flies, rigid. So, a locked situation, cause for worrying, and hard to get out from. Aside from dreams, the moon also stands for fears, and one of those fears could be material trouble.

6 of disks: the bottom disk shows a waxing moon symbol, the other disks show other planet symbols (mercury, mars, venus, jupiter and saturn). And this card has Moon in Taurus (the Moon symbol is depicted in the orange part at the top, the taurus sign at the bottom). Moon in Taurus is seen as a practical mind, wanting material comfort and security, and using their will and determination to reach that, often bringing them success, which is what Crowley called this card. Looking up Moon in Taurus on the internet I come across this personality explanation: "There's a steadiness to this position of the Moon that is comforting to those close to them. But the conservative streak in these natives can be maddening to more progressive personalities. They tend to go out of their way to avoid "messy" or unpredictable situations, crises, and emotional displays. Instead, they focus on creating a reliable and secure life around them. In relationships, Lunar Taureans may not easily recognize their partner's need for change, growth, or emotional stimulation." "Since Taurus is a practical earth sign, the placement of the Moon in this sign suggests an ability to protect themselves and their own interests. They will rarely make a move without first determining that it is safe and that there's something in it for them."
This can be easily seen as the description of RW's money giver on his 6 of disks. Crowley's center of the card shines a full moonlike light, like that of the star, so in that sense is a "dreams come true" card.

9 of disks: the bottom purple disk shows a waning crescent with a man (man on the moon). Again 5 other disks here depict a planet symbol, and just like here with the moon, the symbol is found within a depiction of a personality: Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. I take the depcition of these 6 as if Crowley saw them as being in harmony with each other, cooperative factors. Crowley called this card "Gain"... it's like a six of disks + an extra 3 disks... therefore gain.



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Group 3 of Crowley-Toth cards under the moon's rule:
It should include the 6 of disks, but I already mentioned that one in group 2

4 of cups: Moon in Cancer... Some looking up of characterization of cancer moons reveal this... "They can be extremely passive when it comes to extricating themselves from unhappy emotional situations. They may even cling to such situations after they have managed to find happiness elsewhere. They hate to throw anything away. Lack of motivation can make them lazy, disorganized and sloppy." This immediately evokes the image of the man lazily sitting against a tree and reacting with apathy to the fourth cup, with the RW. However, Crowley emphasised the emotional richness as well as their need of making their home an environment that gives them all they need of Cancer moons. His 4 of cups is called luxury, and the image of the cups is indeed beautiful and shining brightly. Only they grey sky behind it shows that this affluence may have its downside and some day may be gone too. The Moon's intuition and duplicity plays a part here, because on the one hand the Cancer becomes so sensitive to others that it becomes unclear whether they are expressing their own emotions or those of the person they empathize with.

2 of swords: Moon in Libra
"Because this drive for harmony, peace, and sharing is so powerful, Lunar Librans are apt to do a lot of conceding."
And here we have the explanation of the 2 of swords, a situation where the querent tries to keep the peace at all cost. Crowley called the card Peace, and shows a harmonious picture. Libra stands for justice and thus truth, whereas the moon stands for illusions too, hence why the two swords are actually crossing each other. Strangely enough, the Toth 2 of swords actually has 4 swords in the picture. It's as if he's saying "Yes, there is actual peace and harmony, but beware you do not end up in the situation of 4 swords where everything comes to a standstill because you avoided to make a choice when a choice needed to be made."

7 of swords (Futility): Waning Moon in Aquarius...
Aquarius people have a tendency to want to be unique, loners, to feel they are above the common, and with the moon of illusion we can see the potential of deception and unreliability in order to show their independence. The big sword has the sun sign, and the four most middle ones have venus, mars, jupiter and mercury signs for handles. Alas I'm not sure about the outer two swords. It seems that here one tries to tie in too many planets that it's impossible to succeed, and hence futile... Crowley called this card "Futility"

10 of swords (Ruin): Sun in Libra versus Moon in Gemini, however I'm not really sure whether this is the case... there are so many symbols at the swords handles that it's not clear anymore which sign belongs to which. For example the sun symbol rests on the scale symbol at the top of the card, whiel at the bottom we have a waxing moon crescent with a pentagram and a square which probably indicates gemini.
Note how 8 of the 10 swords do not have an asotrological handle: one has a heart, two with hourglasses (time... situation has been going on for a while), two with crosses, two with stars, a to me undecipherable rich handle. So we must consider the moon symbol in opposition with the sun symbol at least... the sun with libra suggesting that in reality the situation is bright and clear, whereas moon in gemini indicates twice duplicity... the perceived situation is an illusion.
If you count the number of swords, you're more likely to count eight swords instead of 10. A closer look will suggest that the bottom sword is actually two swords, one atop the other. But that still only makes 9 swords, not 10. There's little left of the 10th sword that is at the center of this card... we can still see the heart handle. So, the card shows one sword with a heart handle attacked by 9 other swords, while most of the points of those 9 are broken. We can only see 3 whole points reaching the heart of the handle.
3 of swords stands for heartache, heartbreaking events... we only need 3 swords for that, not 10. And yet, those 3 points all miss the heart on this card, thereby indicating that the heart has already healed, or is not harmed as the querent thinks.



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Hi Sweetsunray,

I didn't go through your 3 postings, but copied them onto a doc. I will then slowly go through them.

It's so nice to have people responding on these subjects. There is a wealth of knowledge in MB, unlike some other sites.

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