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During the last half a year I have been producing illuminated manuscripts with the different astrological signs and have become fascinated by backlinks between tarot and astrology. The connections forwards and backwards systems are more tenuous than I originally thought, however, there are a few direct correlations between your symbols of the tarot as well as the ruling planets from the different signs - the obvious being Saturn and also the Hermit, as well as the Magician and Mercury.

Tarot - Astrological study stretches back 1000's of years - to ancient Egypt and Babylonia a minimum of, while early mankind would most likely have created their own star-lore. At that point within our evolution, we probably used the proper brain to some far greater extent than we all 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 exceptional, intuitive familiarity with the heavens - as an example, the Dogon, who, in accordance with a current article around the Museum of Unnatural Mystery, knew in regards to the invisible companion to Sirius.

Astrology - The traditional astrologers identified the planets, attempted to explain heavenly events for example eclipses and comets, and assigned images and psychological characteristics to constellations that they identified by name depending on local myths, and also to different planets.

ofer cohen - This utilization of figurative imagery - together with an underlying animistic idea of the universe - continued for centuries, with the collapse with 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 describe the alchemic process. The tarot, appearing around 1415, used the identical language. Like astrology and alchemy, the tarot referred to 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 every one of the astrological signs, plus the elements and virtues - and was among the first medieval packs to change all pages to 'maid' cards.)