Astrology and the Tarot
Since astrology and the tarot are both occult symbol systems, it is not surprising that numerous attempts have been made to integrate, or at least correlate, the two.
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Harmony of the World, image by 18th century astrologer Ebenezer Sibly, from Wikipedia - Astrology Portal.
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In its modern guise, astrology is based on the assertion that the apparent positions of certain objects in the solar system at the time an individual is born are somehow correlated with his or her personality, activities, ...
Astrology
The pseudo-scientific study of the influence of the celestial bodies on the Earth and its inhabitants.
Astrologer is a person who practices astrology, predicting or determining the influence of the planets and stars on human affairs.
Astrology: Between Religion and the Empirical
Dr. Gustav-Adolf Schoener
Translated by Shane Denson
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Astrology n : a form of fortune telling or counseling for the individual, which is done through the interpretation of the motions, movements and positions of celestial objects.
Angular astrology assumes we are born with a set of angles which are identical to those operative at the time and place of our birth, and which our incarnate soul "inhabits" for the duration of each life.
Astrology : The art and science of the study of the relationships between people and events on earth, and the cycles, position, aspects, and motion of the Sun, Moon and eight planets along the ecliptic.
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Astrology
Astrology is a vast topic with hundreds of treatises produced during the period preceding the invention of the Tarot in 15th century Italy. It is facetious to think that the entire field can be handled in a single chapter.
Chinese Astrology
Chinese astrology is based on a twelve-year cycle as opposed to the twelve-month rotation of Western astrology.
Astrology is still a relatively unknown and distrusted phase of science that requires extensive research and careful calculations to prove its point. This is because each individual is inherently different and no two readings will be the same.
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Astrology. The science which defines the action of celestial bodies upon mundane affairs, and claims to foretell future events from the positions of the stars. Its antiquity is such as to place it among the very earliest records of human learning.
Astrology
The "science of the celestial bodies," Astrology may be considered to have been the first true science, and is a sort of transcendental metaphysics. A form of divination based on the ancient adage, "As above, so below.
ASTROLOGY.
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FROM what has been premised in the foregoing parts of this work, it will now become manifest to every unprejudiced reader, that Astrology and Magic, how much soever they have been confounded with each other, ...
Astrology Essentially the purest presentation of occult truth in the world at this time because it is the science which deals with those conditioning and governing energies and forces which play through and upon the whole field of space and all ...
ASTROLOGY is divination using celestial bodies: the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
AUGURY is the general term for the art of divination and is chiefly applied to interpretations of signs and omens.
AUSTROMANCY is divination by the study of the winds.
Astrology
Divination through the correlation of earthly events with celestial patterns.
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From ancient until mediaeval times astrology was thought to be the study of the actual universe, which incorporated divinatory principles and ideas drawn from classical mythology.
System Astrology Alchemy Heraldry Sun/Moon corresp. Sun/Moon gold/silver or/argent Traditional name luminaries perfect metals metals Name of others planets base metals tinctures ...
A term in astrology referring to double-bodied zodiacal signs: Gemini, Sagiitarius and Pisces. Ptolemy denoted that the term means these signs are mutable or deductive. He also thought Virgo was bicoporeal. A.G.H.
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In Esoteric Astrology p. 389, D.K. describes the desire nature in part: ...
To the science of astrology he has given more in a few years than has previously been discovered for centuries.
The French scholar Festugiere divided the Hermeticum into "popular Hermeticism"--astrology, alchemy and the occult arts--and "erudite Hermeticism, ...
Astrological Age (Cycles of the ages) An astrological age is a time period in astrology which is believed by some to cause major changes in the Earth's inhabitants' development.
And after the Singer advances the Astrologer, with a horologe in his hand, and a palm, the symbols of astrology. He must have the astrological books of Hermes, which are four in number, always in his mouth.
At the most, astrology, as it is now practised, can only calculate the interaction between these physical conditions at any given moment, and the conditions brought to them by a given person whose general constitution and natal condition are known.
Ptolemy makes no reference to the Elements in his writings on Astrology. He speaks of the trigons, or triplicites, but does not connect them with the Elements. He describes the planets in terms of the qualities hot. cold, moist and dry.
Hartman, are tractates of Rosicrucian Allegory which will well repay, not only perusal, but deep study; while the elucidation of the whole set of Medieval Divinatory Sciences, Astrology, Geomancy, etc, ...
For example, if alchemy explains the Below then astrology explains the Above, because it also conforms to the formula. But what reconciles the Above and the Below? After all this is the greatest of the pairs of opposites.
"I am not writing a treatise on astrology, but upon the seven rays and their equivalent and corresponding energies, upon the effects of ray energy, and the interplay of these enrgies with, and their effect upon, the various planetary forces, ...
Of the metaphysical sciences - Astrology, Tarot, Palmistry and other spiritually relevant studies - Numerology is the least known or understood, yet the most accessible.
Many popular forms include Astrology, Runes, Tarot, tea leaves, the pendulum, scrying, meditation and many more. A common practice in one form or another with Pagans of any path.
 See also: World, Spirit, Ritual, Spiritual, Magic
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