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Going back half a year I've been producing illuminated manuscripts from the different astrological signs and also have become interested in backlinks between tarot and astrology. The connections between the two systems will be more tenuous than I originally thought, although there are a few direct correlations involving the symbols of the tarot and the ruling planets of the different signs - the most obvious being Saturn and The Hermit, and the Magician and Mercury.

future telling - Astrological study stretches back thousands of years - to ancient Egypt and Babylonia a minimum of, while early mankind would almost certainly have created their own star-lore. At that stage within our evolution, we probably used the best brain with a much larger extent than we all do today, and those early people might have automatically assigned images to the patterns of stars. [In fact, the mythology of some indigenous populations shows an exceptional, intuitive familiarity with the heavens - as an example, the Dogon, who, according to a recent article about the Museum of Unnatural Mystery, knew concerning the invisible companion to Sirius.

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

Astrology - This utilization of figurative imagery - along with a fundamental animistic concept of the universe - continued for thousands of years, through the collapse of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilisations. In medieval times, symbology was useful 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 referred to images that all understood - which Carl Jung called archetypes: the fool or jester, Emperors, Popes, Justice, Death, The Star, Sunlight. (The Minchiate deck incorporated all the astrological signs, plus the elements and virtues - and was among the first medieval packs to improve all pages to 'maid' cards.)