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While reading the chapter on astrology in O'Neill's Tarot Symbolism, I compared the tarot-astrological correspondences of various tarot authors for each card to correspondences I had previously assigned on my own. Most of the authors correspondences had minimal correlation with my own, except for Thierens whose correspondences for the first twelve cards matched mine at least for the basic pattern, starting with the Magician - Aries. He assigned the zodiac signs to the first twelve and planets to the remaining ten, similar to what I had assigned, making me curious enough to order his book, Astrology & Tarot. (When I had made these card assignments sometime last year, I used the correspondences of Leary for the first twelve, and then assigned the planets to the other ten.)
Thierens' assignments:
Magician- Aries
High Priestess - Taurus
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Hanged Man - Pisces
Death - Saturn
Temperance - Mercury
Devil - Mars
Tower - Uranus
Star - Venus
Moon- Moon
Sun - Sun
Last Judgment - Jupiter
World - Neptune
Thierens has a unique correspondence between the four suits and elements too.
Wands - Clubs - trefoil/shamrock/trinity - Air "highest expression of Divine"
{Hermes-Mercury, Lord of the Element of Air, carries a wand}
{Trismegistus - "threefold" - trefoil}
Pentacles - Hearts - fifth house / Leo / Sun - Fire "spirit, benefic"
Cups - Diamonds - Moon - Water "diamond-soul, window"
Swords - Spades -agriculture - Earth " material necessity, practicality"
{spade - reverse of heart, oppressed by cross of matter, malefic Mars}
Thierens' assignments:
Magician- Aries
High Priestess - Taurus
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Hanged Man - Pisces
Death - Saturn
Temperance - Mercury
Devil - Mars
Tower - Uranus
Star - Venus
Moon- Moon
Sun - Sun
Last Judgment - Jupiter
World - Neptune
Thierens has a unique correspondence between the four suits and elements too.
Wands - Clubs - trefoil/shamrock/trinity - Air "highest expression of Divine"
{Hermes-Mercury, Lord of the Element of Air, carries a wand}
{Trismegistus - "threefold" - trefoil}
Pentacles - Hearts - fifth house / Leo / Sun - Fire "spirit, benefic"
Cups - Diamonds - Moon - Water "diamond-soul, window"
Swords - Spades -agriculture - Earth " material necessity, practicality"
{spade - reverse of heart, oppressed by cross of matter, malefic Mars}