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Tarot, astrology and numerology, explained plainly

Colour plate from Andreas Cellarius's star atlas of 1661: the planetary orbits drawn inside a ring of the twelve zodiac signs, with astronomers beside them

Tarot, astrology and numerology: 78 cards, ten planets, twelve signs, four elements and nine numbers.

Draw a card, explore the deck or find your birth card. Set out as what each tradition says, not as a forecast.

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What this site is

Tarot, astrology and numerology sort the world into small sets of symbols: 78 cards, ten planets, twelve signs, nine numbers. Try them here, and read each as what its tradition holds. None of it predicts your life.

A medieval manuscript page showing the Zodiac Man, a figure with each sign of the zodiac placed on a part of the body

A medieval Zodiac Man: each sign was once assigned to a part of the body.

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Today's card

One card for the date, the same for everyone. Turn it over for its meaning, then try a full spread, yes or no tarot, or find your birth card.

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The zodiac as a grid

Every sign has one element and one modality, so the twelve fit a grid of four rows and three columns. Pick a planet, an element or a modality and see which signs it touches.

Planets
Elements
Modalities

The ten planets

A northern-sky star chart from Hevelius's atlas of 1690, with the constellations drawn as engraved figures inside a circle
Planets

Three old plates of the heavens

The pictures on this site are engravings and woodcuts from the star atlases and manuscripts in which these ideas were drawn.

A hand-coloured 1750 plate from John Bevis's atlas showing the scorpion, the scales and the crab among the stars
Cellarius's 1661 plate of the Ptolemaic system: nested rings for the planets inside a ring of zodiac signs
A northern-sky chart from Hevelius's atlas of 1690

How to read it

Each page says what the tradition associates with its subject, then where it fits: which signs a planet rules, which signs an element holds, which season a modality marks. Where the tradition has two answers, such as the modern and the older rulers of a sign, both are given. The astronomy on the planet pages is plain fact and the rest is symbolism. Tarot cards link to the planets, signs and numbers they are traditionally tied to, and back.

Planets
10, with Sun and Moon
Other bodies
6, five asteroids and Chiron
Signs
12
Tarot
78 cards, upright and reversed
Numerology
Numbers 1 to 9

Elements and modalities