What are the symbolic meanings?
Symbols are specific images in the cards. Take the Moon (Key 18) a card full of symbols. The pool in the foreground is a symbol of the sub-conscious mind, the crayfish a representation of the early development of consciousness, ready to emerge. The path from the waters edge leads to a distant unknown land, a journey that requires spiritual faith. First it must encounter another evolutionary symbol in the form of the wild wolf and the tame dog; as Eden Grey so aptly states, “the wolf is natures untamed creation, the dog is the result of adaptation to life with man.” Still before the path reaches that far distant it must pass between the towers erected by man marking the known from the unknown the wilds beyond the safety of the known village. High a above the Moon, another symbol of the subconscious. So in effect the subconscious Moon provides illumination to the barely conscious Crayfish, beckoning it forth to seek enlightenment. The overall card tells a story (the divinatory meaning) w
