When I started out studying the Tarot somewhere in the nineties, I would diligently try to search for ‘true’ meanings and correspondences of the cards. I wrote everything down neatly in my Tarot journal and all went well for a while. But then I came to notice that the correspondences of the elements, the astrological correspondences or even the meanings were different everywhere! And no one could clarify what ‘the truth’ was (alltough many claimed they could). This was extremely frustrating!
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Since the late 18th century, various tarotists and members of occult societies have linked tarot cards to planets and constellations. The correspondences differ, because some assume the so-called ‘classical’ or ‘Hellenistic’ astrology and others use the ‘modern’ astrological correspondences. The most common assignment is the one from the Golden Dawn.
