Reading the tarot cards of your natal chart

[Rose Lalonde]

With the conversation about birth cards, I was thinking about the fact that your natal chart matches up directly with RWS and Thoth tarot cards.

 

One way to see it is to use the free Hellenistic astrology software Morinus. Tell it to show the decans, and you can quickly see which tarot cards match which planets in your chart. (see the attached image)

 

You can also do it with any modern online chart. You'd just use the degrees to calculate the decans. Anything in 0 - 10 degrees is the first decan (lowest numbered minor in that sign), 10 - 20 degrees is the middle decan, and 20 - 30 is the last.

 

The attached image shows the natal chart (left) and associated tarot minors (right) for a hypothetical baby born in Paris yesterday at 5 am.  :)

 

The image I used is Hellenistic astrology simply because the creators of the Rider Waite and Thoth used Hellenistic astrology to assign decans to the cards. They just included the '7 planets of the ancients' that were visible in the sky.

 

For this little Parisian the image shows:

Sun and Mercury in her chart are in the place of the 2 of Swords

Moon is in 9 of Cups

Venus is in 5 of Cups

Mars is in 5 of Swords

Jupiter straddles the 6 & 7 of Cups

Saturn is in 2 of Disks

 

You can also find courts. To keep it simple, I didn't add it to the image, but this baby's Sun is in Queen of Swords, and Moon is in King of Cups. Since she's a Libra, her major is Justice.

 

If we wanted, we could read her cards based on the planets. For example the Moon sign in modern astrology is often associated with emotions and our inner life, so you could read the 9 of cups in relation to that.

 

(There's also the Hellenistic option, in that nocturnal charts strengthen Moon, Venus and Mars and weaken Sun, Jupiter and Saturn  -- and by nocturnal they meant anything before the sun was visible in the sky, so this little Parisian is a nocturnal birth by Hellenistic reckoning. And diurnal births strengthen the opposite cards.)

[Avalon]

K Grad:

Sun: 2 Swords

Moon: 3 Wands

= Bipolar  ;D >:D

 

Thanks, Rose for the App.