MahoneStoltz672
During the last half a year I've been producing illuminated manuscripts with the different astrological signs and also have become interested in backlinks 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 indicating the tarot and also the ruling planets of the different signs - the obvious being Saturn and The Hermit, as well as the Magician and Mercury.
the light - Astrological study stretches back 1000's of years - to ancient Egypt and Babylonia at least, while early mankind would most likely have formulated their own star-lore. At that point in our evolution, we probably used the right brain with a far greater extent than we all do today, and those early people would have automatically assigned images to the patterns of stars. [In fact, the mythology of some indigenous populations shows an extraordinary, intuitive familiarity with the celebrities - for example, the Dogon, who, in accordance with a recently available article around the Museum of Unnatural Mystery, knew in regards to the invisible companion to Sirius.
the light - The traditional astrologers identified the planets, attempted to explain heavenly events including eclipses and comets, and assigned images and psychological characteristics to constellations that they can identified by name depending on local myths, also to different planets.
the light - This utilization of figurative imagery - together with an underlying animistic notion of the universe - continued for centuries, from the collapse from the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilisations. During medieval times, symbology was employed for religious and philosophical ends - the alchemists, for instance, used figurative symbolism to describe the alchemic process. The tarot, appearing around 1415, used the same language. Like astrology and alchemy, the tarot known images that most 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, in addition to the elements and virtues - and was one of the primary medieval packs to improve the pages to 'maid' cards.)
