If we consider that landscape for a moment, there’s no suggestion of land, of a far off mountain, or a scene going on other than the apparent entry point between two towers with two guards, and the scarab under the water.

This is an abstract card in many ways and it’s illusionary imagery plays to that. If I had used a different card, like the Sun, then perhaps there would have been more of the realism you were expecting.

Thinking of the images on any RWS based deck will provide those kinds of images, but concentrating on that will detract from the reason you have journeyed into the card in the first place.

It’s a fair and interesting point you raise Christiane, so I will at some point in the near future, journey into a RWS card and see how I find the imagery in that. I will of course post my findings. That is unless you beat me to it

Catherine

I was just wondering out of curiosity how people manage to journey into an abstract image and make it work for themselves.

Christiane

Thank you for your comment. If you look at the image of the Thoth Moon card, you can see there is no land or ground area to speak of, only a line that separates the upper world and the lower. Looking at the lower world with the sun and the scarab beetle, the lines across this part of the card do suggest water to me.

Astrologically, the Moon card is aligned to Pisces, and elementally to water. So, while I can’t rule out the possibility of being influenced by the RWS, we are talking about the unconscious mind here, so anything is possible. I haven’t read with the RWS in a long time, so I don’t believe it influenced me on this occasion – not with so many liquid associations!

Catherine