ErbBosley979

Going back half a year I am producing illuminated manuscripts from the different astrological signs and also have become fascinated with the hyperlinks between tarot and astrology. The connections between the two systems tend to be more tenuous than I originally thought, however, there are some direct correlations between your symbols of the tarot and the ruling planets with the different signs - the most apparent being Saturn as well as the Hermit, and also the Magician and Mercury.

the light - Astrological study stretches back many 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 in our evolution, we probably used the best brain to some much better extent than we do today, and the ones 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 celebrities - for example, the Dogon, who, according to a recent article around the Museum of Unnatural Mystery, knew concerning the invisible companion to Sirius.

ofer cohen - The traditional astrologers identified the planets, attempted to explain heavenly events including eclipses and comets, and assigned images and psychological characteristics to constellations which they recognized by name based on local myths, and to different planets.

Tarot - This usage of figurative imagery - along with a fundamental animistic idea of the universe - continued for thousands of years, through the collapse of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilisations. During the middle ages, symbology was useful for religious and philosophical ends - the alchemists, as an 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 described images that most understood - which Carl Jung called archetypes: the fool or jester, Emperors, Popes, Justice, Death, The Star, The sun's rays. (The Minchiate deck incorporated all the astrological signs, in addition to the elements and virtues - and was among the first medieval packs to change the pages to 'maid' cards.)