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During the last six months I have been producing illuminated manuscripts of the different astrological signs and also have become fascinated with the links between tarot and astrology. The connections backward and forward systems will be more tenuous than I originally thought, although there are some direct correlations between the symbols of the tarot as well as the ruling planets with the different signs - the most apparent being Saturn as well as the Hermit, as well as the Magician and Mercury.

the light - Astrological study stretches back thousands of years - to ancient Egypt and Babylonia at least, while early mankind would most likely are creating their very own star-lore. At that point within our evolution, we probably used the right brain with a much larger extent than we do today, and those early people could have automatically assigned images to the patterns of stars. [In fact, the mythology of some indigenous populations shows an extraordinary, intuitive understanding of the celebs - for instance, the Dogon, who, in accordance with a current article on the Museum of Unnatural Mystery, knew in regards to the invisible companion to Sirius.

Astrology - The ancient astrologers identified the planets, attempted to explain heavenly events such as eclipses and comets, and assigned images and psychological characteristics to constellations which they identified by name depending on local myths, and to the different planets.

Tarot - This usage of figurative imagery - along with an underlying animistic idea of the universe - continued for centuries, from the collapse with the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilisations. During the middle ages, symbology was used by religious and philosophical ends - the alchemists, for 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 referred to 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 of the astrological signs, as well as the elements and virtues - and was among the first medieval packs to change all pages to 'maid' cards.)