astrology and the tarot

A Personal Interpretation by Melanie

I feel I have an alternative, perhaps more basic, perspective on astrological significance of the Major Arcana to the usual connections that are made.  The below are my own personal interpretations but it is perfectly feasible for people to have different interpretations.  

Below is a simple chart depicting each sign of the zodiac and the card of the major arcanca that I belive it represents.

sign	date from	date to	element	tarot card
capricorn	22-dec	21 jan	earth	hermit
aquarius	22 jan	21 feb	air	fortune
pisces	22 feb	21 mar	water	strength
aries	22 mar	21 apr	fire	the fool
taurus	22 apr	21 may	earth	magician
gemini	22 may	21 june	air	priestess
cancer	22 jun	21 july	water	empress
leo	22 jul	21 aug	fire	emperor
virgo	22 aug	21 sep	earth	heirophant
libra	22 sep	21 oct	air	the lovers
scorpio	22 oct	21 nov	water	chariot
sagittarius	22 nov	21 dec	fire	justice

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The Fool = Aries
Aries is the Newborn and discovers existence.  The Fool is fearless yet vulnerable, innocent, A wise leader and prophet, yet naive to the ways of the world.

The Magician = Taurus
Taurus is the Baby manipulates possessions.  The Magician skillfully manifests material and spiritual wealth using the tools he posesses.


The Priestess = Gemini
Gemini is the Child creates thought and Intuition.  The Priestess is Diana/Artemis twin of Apollo/Helios the Sun God and Godess of the chase. Intuitive, quick representing duality expressed through the feminine creative element, seeing the natural order in the chaos of existence and magick full of learning and knowledge.

The Empress = Cancer
Cancer is the Adolescent and feels emotion.  The Empress is the Great Mother Goddess, creative, abundant and giving, she is Gaia and Pele, Mother Earth bringing forth all existance but can be furious destruction in her rage. She is pure emotion.

The Emperor = Leo
Leo is the Teenager and uses the will.  Master of the material Plane, king of all he surveys Power without match, A kind benevolent ruler, or a rod of Iron?



The Heirophant = Virgo
Virgo is the Adult analyses chaos, seeking order.  The Heirophant keeper of conventions, striving for spiritual perfection, seeking to impose order on chaos, lives by example, a critic and berator.  Having attained maturity, the adult progresses.

The Lovers = Libra
Libra seeks Balance through partnership / Marriage.  The Lovers reflects the choice to be made, the balance to be kept, seeking to balance the self through union with another.


The Chariot = Scorpio
Scorpio seeks fulfillment through Desire / Sex.  The Chariot, the ego moving forward via the will and desire, learning the power of dominance versus submission, passion without care for consequence, never to admit defeat.


Justice = Saggitarius
Saggitarius sees Knowledge and Fairness.  Justice Honest, Fair and impartial, Wise beyond years, Philosophical and ultimately Optimistic. Instinctive and a true believer.


Hermit = Capricorn
Capricorn uses experience and is the seeker of knowledge. He withdraws from the excesses of the world to begin a new spiritual journey, but he is not hidden from the world, just not living by its conventions, seeking a higher ambition in a slow but determined methodical way.


Fortune = Aquarius
Aquarius knows Idealism.  Wheel of Fortune, an idealist, he sees the world for what it is and as a result seems otherworldly. He plays the game and takes a risk knowing all that rises must fall.

Strength = Pisces
Pisces is Submission and Belief.  Strength is the Goddess that pacifies the Lion, yet she and the lion are one. By accepting the ferocity of the lion she subdues her inner demon, but does not eradicate him accepting herself as whole, integrating the light andthe dark she utilise true strength.  Pisces is the first step on the inner journey.

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