KhanBethea273

During the last half a year I have been producing illuminated manuscripts of the different astrological signs and have become interested in backlinks between tarot and astrology. The connections forwards and backwards systems tend to be more tenuous than I originally thought, however, there are a few direct correlations between your indicating the tarot and the ruling planets with the different signs - the most obvious being Saturn and The Hermit, as well as the Magician and Mercury.

Astrology - Astrological study stretches back thousands of years - to ancient Egypt and Babylonia at least, while early mankind would almost certainly have formulated their very own star-lore. At that point inside our evolution, we probably used the right brain with a much better extent than perform today, and the ones early people could have automatically assigned images towards the patterns of stars. [In fact, the mythology of some indigenous populations shows a fantastic, intuitive understanding of the celebs - as an example, the Dogon, who, based on a recently available article around the Museum of Unnatural Mystery, knew about the invisible companion to Sirius.

Tarot - The traditional astrologers identified the planets, tried to explain heavenly events including eclipses and comets, and assigned images and psychological characteristics to constellations that they recognized by name based on local myths, also to different planets.

Astrology - This utilization of figurative imagery - along with a fundamental animistic concept of the universe - continued for centuries, through the collapse of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilisations. During the middle ages, symbology was used by religious and philosophical ends - the alchemists, as an example, used figurative symbolism to spell it out the alchemic process. The tarot, appearing around 1415, used the identical 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, The Sun. (The Minchiate deck incorporated all of the astrological signs, as well as the elements and virtues - and was one of the first medieval packs to change the pages to 'maid' cards.)