Barbara Walker Tarot - Prince of Wands: Dagon

On his sun-and-moon altar, the god displays both animal and human characteristics. Dagon’s wand and cauldron symbolize fire and water, as his goat head and fish tail symbolize earth and sea; these appeared later in the zodiacal sign of Capricorn. Also called Yamm, Phoenix or Molech, he was a dual-natured consort of the cyclic Goddess Atargatis. His card suggests the unconventional, unexpected, unpredictable, or startling; seeming irrational but having underlying consistency.