The stars and tarot cards can provide you with useful insights into your own personality. The Tarot and your Zodiac sign are closely connected through the elements, the Major Arcana, the planets and the Minor Arcana. Knowing the basics of tarot can give you a deeper understanding of both.
The Elements
Water element:
Chalices: Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces
Chalices represent you: emotions, intuition, dreams, desires
Sensitive and emotional functioning: the feeling
Earth element:
Pentacles: Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn
Pentacles represent you: possessions, stability, growth, reliability
Practical and realistic functioning: the senses
Air element:
Swords: Gemini, Libra and Aquarius
Swords represent you: thoughts, logic, communication, ideas
Intellectual and communicative functioning: thinking
Fire element:
Bars: Aries, Leo and Sagittarius
Bars represent you: action, ambition, creativity, passion
Impulsive functioning with great effort: intuition
The Aces represent the elements in their purest form:
- Ace of Cups: Element of water – Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces
- Ace of Pentacles: Earth element – Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn
- Ace of Swords: Element of Air – Gemini, Libra and Aquarius
- Ace of Wands: element of fire- Aries, Leo and Sagittarius
Zodiac signs, together with the Major Arcana with which their qualities most correspond.
The Magician: Aries (fire)
Concentration
Smart, playful and handy
Hidden leader
Organizational talent
Straightforward
The High Priestess: Taurus/Capricorn (Earth)
Wisdom and inner peace
Objective
Understanding the mystery of life
Intuition
The Empress: Gemini (air)
Giving and receiving love
Creativity
Grow
Happiness
Abundance
Contradictions
Independence
Domestic
The Emperor: Aries/Capricorn/Taurus (earth)
Strong leadership skills
Order and regularity
Sobriety and stability
Rock in the surf
House, tree, animal
High ranking position
The High Priest: Scorpio/Taurus (water/earth)
Wise teacher or spiritual leader
Strong-willed
Spiritual powers and forces
Guide others in (spiritual) knowledge
The Lovers: Gemini/Libra (air)
Balance
Making right decisions
Good communication
To collaborate
Not wanting to hand over
The Chariot: Sagittarius/Libra (fire/air)
Diplomatic
Socially involved
Decisive
Want to know the ins and outs
Balance through self-protection
Power: Leo (fire)
Psychological insight
Self-knowledge
Balance
Harmony
Brave
The Hermit: Virgo/Sagittarius (earth/fire)
Investigative
Patient
Careful
Result-oriented
Spiritual teacher
Convincing vision of life
Loneliness
Transformation
Wheel of Fortune: Capricorn (Earth)
Good timing
Expansion
Unexpected advantages or disadvantages
Renewal
Change
Creative thinking
Justice: Scorpio/Libra (water/air)
Full of conviction
Powerful
Correct
Hate injustice and unfairness
Sense of objectivity
Self-insight
Experience fate
Respect for authority
The Hanged Man: Pisces (water)
Adjust priorities
Waiting
Dreaming
Illusions
Self-pity
Death: Scorpio/Capricorn (water/earth)
Grow
Transformation
New directions
Liberation
Connected with mysteries
The (spiritual) BEING
Temperance: Sagittarius/Libra (fire/air)
Enthusiastic
Candid
Success
Adding water to the wine
Union of forces
Compromise
The Devil: Scoprio/Capricorn (water/earth)
Loneliness
Pessimist
Desire
Passion
Chasing dreams
Euphoria
The Tower: Aries (fire)
Confusion
Destruction
Despair
New beginning
New insight
Change
The Star: Aquarius (air)
Intuitive
Bright and optimistic star
Pursuing desires
Self-realization
Realization
Power
Talent
The Moon: Pisces (water)
Idealism
Moodiness
Follow dreams
Stop exaggerating
Instinctive behavior
Helpful
Tendency towards contradictory behavior
Desire for spiritual development
Dreamer
The Meaning of the Ten Planets
The Sun: life force, creative urge, willpower
The Moon: emotional life, mood swings, instability
Mercury: logical thinking, curiosity, intelligent, articulate, communicative
Venus: love, affection, beauty, seeking balance, peacemaking
Mars: combative, enterprising, courageous, reckless, passionate
Jupiter: expansion, growth, success, optimism, excess
Saturn: limitations, tenacity, discipline, sense of duty, sense of responsibility
Uranus: intuition, insights, changes
Neptune: emotional life, spirituality, illusion, confusion, addiction
Pluto: lust for power, transformation, renewal, integration of the unconscious
De Minor Arcana
The Minor Arcana is divided into numbers two through ten. These are the so-called Cardinal (leading), Fixed (fixed), and Mutable (changeable) signs.
Cardinal, the leading signs (cards 2, 3 and 4) is linked to Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn.
These are the leaders and initiators.
Fixed, the fixed signs (cards 5, 6 and 7) is linked to Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius.
These are stable, dedicated, stubborn and persistent.
Mutable, the mutable signs (cards 8, 9 and 10) is linked to Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces.
These are adaptable, versatile and initiators of change.