"Xviii THE moon" THOTH TAROT CARD: READING. Picked out by Nyxi, as she plays with a 'blood stone'.
This is Aleister Crowley's (d1947) darker and more, if one can say, depressing cards, in which I won't go into any further analysis of Crowley, you'll have to go through some of my earlier Thoth card readings (link in post) of my study of the man. And what appeared at times, was his psychotic overview of his own created Thoth Tarot, and I am being speculative, may have related to his heavy drug use, particularly amphetamines and cocaine.
Reading:
Tread carefully. Are you afraid of the dark? And when midnight strikes, does the imagination run rampant? Within the shadows that are derived from the abyss of the night, if you are unable to contain your thoughts. The shadows will move in mysterious ways. Unnecessary fearful, is the tormented mind. If you allow fear to be your guide. Of no horizons, and boundaries that cannot be seen. The beetle bares the Sun, but is unable to piece through the Night, the Moon rains blood, in the shape of the Hebrew letter Yod, of a bleeding omnipresence. Showing that even the gods can bleed. Thus, they hold no protection from this darkness, that is of the human mind. But, it is the Hebrew letter Qoph, seen also on the card. Which means, the back of the head. The fear, that trails behind you. And the moon depicted is of a waning fixture, in its pure darkness. The dead zone that it is, offers no relevance to life. As it moves away from the Earth it draws the ocean tides with it. Does it draw you further into its emptiness? You may indeed need to transverse between the dark towers of doubt for this answer, it is of the unknown. Guarded by the Jackals, either side. They are the divine tricksters of the animal kingdom. The desolate ones. That live in the ruins of once grand cities. Feeding off the carcasses, that fell prey to their own folly. Yet, they do not fear what you fear. As they lay, and wait in the dark. Then why enter? I ask. To which, you may reply. "That it is the challenge that I seek." If that is so, you must use fear, to destroy fear. Only the most calmest mind can achieve this. And thus, the Moon as a reading, will hold no meaning for you at all.
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(A.Glass 2024)
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