The ancient astrologers knew this and divided each zodiac sign; modern The ruler of the decan of the rising sign in the progressed chart has a great deal of.
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Today, I want to explain the importance of the decans and their rulers.
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You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. I going to need to read it again to soak it all in, but it's really cool knowledge! I'll continue this as series. The connection between astrological signs and major arcana is much easier to understand than the whole decan thing, and maybe I should have started with it!
It's very easy. We have 22 major cards in the tarot on the one side, and on the other, 12 zodiac signs, 7 classical planets and 4 elements, or 10 modern planets the discussion about Pluto is open but when the number of planets in astrology was expanded to include the planets discovered via telescope, Pluto was included; more about the fluctuating number of planets obviously here. Remember that Moon and Sun count as planets in astrology.
The numbers are clear: it's easy to associate 12 zodiac signs to 12 tarot trumps, but what about the remaining 10 trumps? We can either associate them with the 7 classical planets and the remaining 3 with elements, or associate them with 10 modern planets. That has lead to the "double association" of three trumps - they are associated with a modern planet AND an element.
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There are different ways of doing this, and some correspondences are debated. I want to present here the system of the Golden Dawn that is maybe most popular and well-known. It's useful to know it because so many decks are based on it. The twelve tarot trumps associated with the zodiac sign don't mean that they have exactly the same meaning. But they are related, they have a lot in common, they throw light on each other. In mathematical language: an intersection. Knowing both helps understand each of them, and it's a useful tool in tarot study example: thinking about what Hierophant and Taurus have in common helps understand Hierophant better.
And thinking about the areas outside the intersection throws each into sharper relief example: thinking about what Hierophant and Taurus DO NOT have in common helps understand Hierophant better. We can either pair them with elements: Air - the Fool Water - the Hanged Man Fire - Judgement Earth - we have run out of tarot cards here so we can choose a double connotation here: the World Saturn and Earth All tarot cards are associated with elements, but these four cards represent their elements. If we can pair them with the newly discovered planets, this is what we get: Uranus - the Fool Neptune - the Hanged Man Pluto - Judgement How do we solve the double associations?
It's not difficult; in esoteric thinking, many symbols are "loaded" with more than one meaning. Here, it works well because the planets are associated with elements anyway. Leo after all comes before Libra, not after it. That's all very simple and gives rich possibilities to our readings.
We can see whether an element dominates or is lacking, we can look for Venus in a love reading, Mars in a conflict reading etc, and we can the horoscope of the querent into account.
The sun sign alone is usually not enough. I'm not an astrologer but I find that knowing the Sun, Moon and ascendant sign gives quite a good basic outline of a personality. You can take the three trumps that represent these three signs and get a shorthand of your astrological personality. Is it necessary to know the decanates?
The decans and rulers are worth investigation and have proven effective in predictive astrology, especially in the progressed horoscope. The ruler of the decan of the rising sign in the progressed chart has a great deal of influence over the whole life, for the time in question, particularly if there are any aspects made by that ruler, or if the planet is strong in the natal chart. The influence of the decan is often similar to the conjunction. Each zodiac sign governs 30 degrees of the natal chart.
Twelve zodiac signs at 30 degrees each constitute the complete natal chart encompassing degrees. The Decans or Decanates: Each sign is divided into three divisions of 10 degrees, each sign has 3 decans, one for each division of 10 degrees. Each decan has a ruler which becomes the sub ruler of the sign or the co-ruler of that sign. Once you are familiar with the Triplicities fire, earth, air, water , it will be easier for you to determine the sub-rulers of each decan.
Each decan of a sign will be in the same triplicity fire, earth, air, water as the sign itself. They are arranged in the same order as they appear in the zodiac. The first decan of Aries is Aries, ruled by Mars. The second decan is Leo, ruled by the Sun, the next fire sign in the zodiac. So the second decan of Aries is ruled by the Sun. The third decan of Aries would be the next fire sign after Leo, which is Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter.
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Each decan is of the same Triplicity - the fire element. The first decan of Taurus is Taurus, ruled by Venus. The second decan of Taurus is Virgo, ruled by Mercury. The third decan of Taurus is Capricorn, ruled by Saturn.
Each decan is of the same Triplicity - the earth element.