Great Celestial Conjunction Crosses - Souls of Distortion

ecliptic and Milky Way and the double four pointed cross of the Great Celestial
Conjunction.
Card XVIII, the Moon
Card XVIII is titled ‘The Moon’ and it shows us a moon depicted inside the Sun.
This card is hinting at a solar eclipse when the moon shifts in front of the Sun,
but it’s not really the conjunction of the Sun and moon that is intended here. The
solar eclipse is merely a metaphor for a far more important conjunction, the
conjunction of the Sun and the Milky Way. Notice that there are two pillars
depicted in the card. Like the pillars in card II they stand for the Milky Way. In
ancient mythologies, mountains, rivers, clouds and pillars were used as
metaphors for the Milky Way.
Notice there is a crab or scorpion on the river bank. The river represents the
great river in the sky, the Milky Way while the scorpion represents the
constellation Scorpio. The road leading to the mountains in the distance is the
ecliptic that is heading towards the Milky Way (mountains). The ecliptic is the
Sun’s path or ‘road’ along the sky and the Sun is depicted straight above the road
in the card. The road also leads to the river and ‘crosses’ the river at the exact
place of the scorpion and is suggesting the ecliptic (road) and the Milky Way
(river) crossing at the Sagittarius-Scorpio nexus (the scorpion).
The two ‘howling animals at the moon’ represent the constellations Lupus
(constellation of the wolf) and Vulpecula (constellation of the fox). Both
constellations reside along the Milky Way at opposite sites of the ecliptic. This
explains why the howling wolf and fox were placed on opposite sides of the road
(ecliptic) along the river bank (Milky Way) in card XVIII.