Astrology & Tarot
The benefits of a reading
Sometimes it is important to get a decision right, or to know what challenges are coming up, or to get your insights on a situation validated. Astrology is fantastic for situations like these.
It is amazing how often a Horary Chart (raised to answer a specific question) accurately predicts what events and circumstances are coming and when.
Looking at your Natal Chart can give you powerful insight into how you express your will, challenges brought in to this life and longer-term event trends. And it can also go back as far as you want to go to explain events that have already happened.
While astrology is a symbolic language, Tarot is a language of pictures. And a picture speaks a thousand words. In my readings I will often include tarot alongside the astrology because it adds extra textures and richness.
Astrology - a brief history
Astrology goes back to the Ancient Greeks, the Egyptians and the Babylonians. The wise people in those societies noted that when the planets and stars were in certain positions in the sky, it would herald major events like wars, political turmoil, famines, floods, earthquakes. Soon kings and rulers were calling on these astrologers for their services.
Eventually, astrologers invented the Natal Chart to take into account what was going on for the individual. A natal chart time-stamps, at the moment you are born, where the planets are located in the sky. This is incredibly important because this tells us about your personality, what events are going to happen in your life and how you may respond to them.
Horary Charts seem to have been around since the time of the Ancient Greeks but were particularly popular in Europe in the Medieval period and in England until the end of the seventeenth century. They go deeper into a specific question and often provide concrete yes/no answers.