MccrarySnavely518

For the last 6 months I have been producing illuminated manuscripts with the different astrological signs and possess become interested in the hyperlinks between tarot and astrology. The connections backward and forward systems tend to be more tenuous than I originally thought, although there are a few direct correlations between the symbols of the tarot and also the ruling planets from the different signs - the most apparent being Saturn as well as the Hermit, and the Magician and Mercury.

future telling - Astrological study stretches back many thousands of years - to ancient Egypt and Babylonia no less than, while early mankind would probably have created their very own star-lore. At that point inside our evolution, we probably used the right brain to a much larger extent than we all do today, and the ones early people could have automatically assigned images for 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, based on a current article about the Museum of Unnatural Mystery, knew in regards to the invisible companion to Sirius.

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

future telling - This usage of figurative imagery - together with an actual animistic idea of the universe - continued for centuries, through the collapse of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilisations. In medieval times, symbology was employed for 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 exactly the same language. Like astrology and alchemy, the tarot known images that understood - which Carl Jung called archetypes: the fool or jester, Emperors, Popes, Justice, Death, The Star, The Sun. (The Minchiate deck incorporated every one of the astrological signs, in addition to the elements and virtues - and was one of the primary medieval packs to alter all pages to 'maid' cards.)