http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=47913
One of the obvious strengths of astrology is it's precision in terms of time. All of the small cards of the tarot have an astrological correspondence which, if used, is exact to within 10 days of any given period. For example, the 2 of wands is Mars in Aries and is associated with 0 to 10 degrees of Aries or March 21-30.
The Princesses/Pages rule the astrological quadrents thus,
Page of disks = March 21 - June 20
Page of wands = June 21 - Sept 22
Page of cups = Sept 23 - Dec 21
Page of swords = Dec 22 - March 20
In addition, the court cards rule the small cards with each court card owning about a month in time, from the last 10 degrees of one sign into the next 20 degrees of the sign that follows.
There are some very handy tables showing the correspondnces on page 207 of DuQuette's book "Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot." The tables are based on the Golden Dawn system so everyone can work out their own tables by checking out Book T http://www.tarot.org.il/Library/Mathers/Book-T.html
Inasmuch as the Aces are the culmination and summary of a suit, I'm not sure using them as time is meaningful. However, if I did use them in that way I'd assign each ace to the beginning of it's astrological quadant which would yield
Ace of wands - vernal equinox (Aries = fire)
Ace of cups - summer solstice (Cancer = cups)
Ace of swords - autumnal equinox (Libra = air)
Ace of pentacles - winter solstice (Capricorn = earth)
One of the obvious strengths of astrology is it's precision in terms of time. All of the small cards of the tarot have an astrological correspondence which, if used, is exact to within 10 days of any given period. For example, the 2 of wands is Mars in Aries and is associated with 0 to 10 degrees of Aries or March 21-30.
The Princesses/Pages rule the astrological quadrents thus,
Page of disks = March 21 - June 20
Page of wands = June 21 - Sept 22
Page of cups = Sept 23 - Dec 21
Page of swords = Dec 22 - March 20
In addition, the court cards rule the small cards with each court card owning about a month in time, from the last 10 degrees of one sign into the next 20 degrees of the sign that follows.
There are some very handy tables showing the correspondnces on page 207 of DuQuette's book "Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot." The tables are based on the Golden Dawn system so everyone can work out their own tables by checking out Book T http://www.tarot.org.il/Library/Mathers/Book-T.html
Inasmuch as the Aces are the culmination and summary of a suit, I'm not sure using them as time is meaningful. However, if I did use them in that way I'd assign each ace to the beginning of it's astrological quadant which would yield
Ace of wands - vernal equinox (Aries = fire)
Ace of cups - summer solstice (Cancer = cups)
Ace of swords - autumnal equinox (Libra = air)
Ace of pentacles - winter solstice (Capricorn = earth)
