Tarot card

The Moon

The Moon lights a road that cannot yet be seen clearly. Instinct, fear and imagination move through its half-light, where the traveller must notice projections without claiming to know everything hidden ahead.

3 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located · The Moon in full

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The oldest attribution here is Tarot trump of Path 29 · Qoph, first attested 1888 CE.

Tarot trump of

  • Path 29 · Qoph

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    Book T establishes this Tarot-to-letter attribution. The path number and endpoints belong to this tradition's canonical Kircher arrangement.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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    2. Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, Tarot Trump column, row 29

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

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Astrological attribution

  • Pisces

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    Book T's attribution carried by the Hebrew letter and therefore by this path.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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    2. Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, astrological and Tarot columns, row 29

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

      Read the source

Hebrew-letter attribution

  • Qoph

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    A Golden Dawn correspondence, not a claim about the historical origin of the card or a universal Jewish letter-to-card system.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — The Twenty-Two Keys of the Book, pp. 5–7

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

      Read the source

    2. Aleister Crowley, 777, 1907–1909 — Table I, columns VII and XIX, row 29

      · First edition, 1909 (anonymous)

      Read the source