BucherMorehead242

During the last six months I have been producing illuminated manuscripts from the different astrological signs and possess become fascinated with the links between tarot and astrology. The connections forwards and backwards systems tend to be more tenuous than I originally thought, however, there are some direct correlations between your symbols of the tarot as well as the ruling planets with the different signs - the most apparent being Saturn and The Hermit, as well as the Magician and Mercury.

Tarot - Astrological study stretches back 1000's of years - to ancient Egypt and Babylonia at least, while early mankind would probably are creating their particular star-lore. At that point inside our evolution, we probably used the right brain with a much better extent than we do today, and the ones early people would have automatically assigned images for the patterns of stars. [In fact, the mythology of some indigenous populations shows a fantastic, intuitive knowledge of the heavens - for example, the Dogon, who, based on a current article on the Museum of Unnatural Mystery, knew concerning the invisible companion to Sirius.

Tarot - The ancient astrologers identified the planets, attemptedto explain heavenly events including eclipses and comets, and assigned images and psychological characteristics to constellations that they can recognized by name according to local myths, also to different planets.

future telling - This utilization of figurative imagery - together with a fundamental animistic idea of the universe - continued for hundreds of years, through the collapse with the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilisations. In medieval times, symbology was employed for religious and philosophical ends - the alchemists, for example, used figurative symbolism to explain the alchemic process. The tarot, appearing around 1415, used exactly the same language. Like astrology and alchemy, the tarot known images that all understood - which Carl Jung called archetypes: the fool or jester, Emperors, Popes, Justice, Death, The Star, Sunlight. (The Minchiate deck incorporated every one of the astrological signs, in addition to the elements and virtues - and was one of the first medieval packs to alter the pages to 'maid' cards.)