The Major Arcana

The Major Arcana of the Tarot deck can be superimposed onto the Astro Wheel to provide a richer and more detailed symbolic interpretation of both astrological and tarot readings. There are 22 Major Arcana cards, each of which can be associated with a zodiac sign and a planet.

List of the tarot card and the planetary connection:

List of basic planetary personalities:

  • Sun: The Sun represents your core identity, personal power, vitality, and essence. It influences your overall character, will, and individuality.

  • Moon: The Moon governs your emotions, instincts, subconscious, and the things that bring you comfort. It also reflects your emotional responses and habits.

  • Mercury: This planet rules communication, intelligence, reasoning, and the way you express and interpret information. It's also associated with travel, technology, and learning.

  • Venus: Venus is the planet of love, beauty, attraction, and relationships. It governs harmony, pleasure, personal values, and how you relate to others.

  • Mars: Mars is associated with energy, action, desire, aggression, and courage. It reflects your physical drive, initiative, and how you assert yourself.

  • Jupiter: Known as the "Great Benefic," Jupiter symbolizes expansion, abundance, optimism, and understanding. It's linked with luck, growth, wisdom, and exploration.

  • Saturn: Saturn is about structure, discipline, responsibility, and limitations. It can symbolize challenges and hardships but also the lessons learned from them.

  • Uranus: Uranus represents change, innovation, rebellion, and individuality. It is associated with breakthroughs, unexpected events, and freedom.

  • Neptune: Neptune rules dreams, illusions, spirituality, and compassion. It governs the mystical, the imaginative, and the subconscious.

  • Pluto: Pluto is linked to transformation, power, rebirth, and the unconscious. It is associated with deep, transformative changes and intense experiences.

List of Zodiac connections:

General interpretations of the zodiac sign’s traits:

  • Aries (March 21-April 19): Aries are often energetic, adventurous, pioneering, courageous, enthusiastic, confident, dynamic, and quick-witted. However, they can also be impatient, impulsive, and prone to mood swings.

  • Taurus (April 20-May 20): Taurus individuals are known to be patient, reliable, warmhearted, loving, persistent, determined, and comfort-seeking. But they can also be jealous, possessive, and resistant to change.

  • Gemini (May 21-June 20): Geminis are typically adaptable, versatile, communicative, witty, intellectual, and eloquent. They can also be nervous, indecisive, and inconsistent.

  • Cancer (June 21-July 22): Cancers are known to be emotional, loving, intuitive, imaginative, shrewd, cautious, and protective, but they can also be moody, touchy, and clingy.

  • Leo (July 23-August 22): Leos are usually generous, warmhearted, creative, enthusiastic, broad-minded, and expansive. On the other hand, they can be pompous, patronizing, bossy, and intolerant.

  • Virgo (August 23-September 22): Virgos are often analytical, observant, helpful, reliable, precise, and skeptical. But they can also be skeptical, fussy, inflexible, and overly critical.

  • Libra (September 23-October 22): Libras are typically diplomatic, urbane, romantic, charming, easygoing, sociable, and idealistic. However, they can also be indecisive, changeable, gullible, and easily influenced.

  • Scorpio (October 23-November 21): Scorpios are known to be determined, forceful, emotional, intuitive, powerful, passionate, and exciting. They can also be jealous, secretive, resentful, and controlling.

  • Sagittarius (November 22-December 21): Sagittarius individuals are usually optimistic, freedom-loving, jovial, honest, straightforward, intellectual, and philosophical. But they can also be blindly optimistic, careless, irresponsible, and restless.

  • Capricorn (December 22-January 19): Capricorns are known to be practical, prudent, ambitious, disciplined, patient, and cautious. On the other hand, they can be pessimistic, fatalistic, miserly, and grudging.

  • Aquarius (January 20-February 18): Aquarians are typically friendly, humanitarian, honest, loyal, original, inventive, and independent. They can also be contrary, perverse, unpredictable, unemotional, and detached.

  • Pisces (February 19-March 20): Pisces individuals are known to be imaginative, sensitive, compassionate, kind, selfless, and intuitive. But they can also be escapist, idealistic, secretive, vague, and weak-willed.

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