One of the Tarot MajorArcana. Key symbol for GoldVsSilver and TheSecretCivilWar.

In the Oz tarot, this card shows the WickedWitchOfTheWest, wizened and hideous, cackling over a moon-like crystal ball.

MamboSally said (to Ben): "The sixth card is before you. It shows what’s immediately in your road. Ha! Now she shows her face. The Wicked Old Witch. The BlackMaria. BloodyMary. The Black Goat of the Woods. She’s out there in the West, watching you. She rules the back roads and the night streets. She calls on the dark side of the moon. You look out for her, boy. She hates the Sun. She hates the Wizard. She hates the men who think they rule this land. But boy, she hates you most of all. Oh lord, what did you do?"

DorothyGale is the current Avatar of this Arcana. She ascended as the Dark Mother, eater of her own young. MommaBeulay was a possible Avatar, but Dorothy ate both of her own children while Momma only had one living child to stand opposition.

Links

• http://www.tarotpassages.com/old_moonstruck/oneill/18.htm
• http://www.aeclectic.net/basics/moon.html
• Luna Park -- if we ever make it back East -- is a place dripping with adventrue possibilities: http://stage.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~fredini/qtvr/