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For the last half a year I've been producing illuminated manuscripts with the different astrological signs and also have become fascinated by the links between tarot and astrology. The connections backward and forward systems will be more tenuous than I originally thought, although there are a few direct correlations between your indicating the tarot and the ruling planets with the different signs - the most obvious being Saturn as well as the Hermit, and also the Magician and Mercury.

Astrology - Astrological study stretches back many thousands of years - to ancient Egypt and Babylonia no less than, while early mankind would most likely are creating their own star-lore. At that point inside our evolution, we probably used the best brain to some much larger extent than we do today, and the ones early people might have automatically assigned images towards the patterns of stars. [In fact, the mythology of some indigenous populations shows an extraordinary, intuitive familiarity with the heavens - as an example, the Dogon, who, according to a recent article on the Museum of Unnatural Mystery, knew concerning 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 which they identified by name based on local myths, and also to different planets.

the light - This utilization of figurative imagery - together with an actual animistic idea of the universe - continued for hundreds of years, from the collapse from 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 describe the alchemic process. The tarot, appearing around 1415, used the identical language. Like astrology and alchemy, the tarot described 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 one of the first medieval packs to change the pages to 'maid' cards.)