Astrology

Another major system utilised within the Thoth Tarot is astrology. This is included within the correspondences of the Major Arcana and built into the designs of the Minor Arcana and themes of the Court Cards. We will reference the astrological correspondences in each specific Major Arcana in this first book, and fully explore astrology in the Thoth Tarot in the second book to follow on the Minor Arcana.

Crowley learnt the basics of astrology, which he then developed along his own routes, as with all his esoteric teaching, from the Golden Dawn. We will briefly look at the nature of the Order and then turn our attention to Crowley’s mystical experience and revelation in 1904, when he set about destroying the Order and following his own journey as a prophet of a New Aeon; a new age illustrated in the Thoth Tarot.