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On page 40 of Louis MacNeice's Astrology, a series of woodcuts appears. It is said to come from a 15th century French text, The Calendar and Compost of Shepherds, itself a translation of a ninth century Arabian astrological textbook.
What is of interest are looking at the images with Tarot sensitised eyes.
Each of the seven planets and twelve signs are depicted (the signs under the planet which rules it), each of the planetary depictions showing a charioteered personage who's chariot is pulled by various animals. VII - Le Chariot, as card, seems to be reflected in both/either the Sun and Mars, but no other.
Virgo is depicted seated, in ways very reminiscent of a Waite or fecund variety as depicted on III - Empress card. Interestingly, but obviously from an astrological perspective of co-rulership, she is adjacent (and faces) two children playing or engaging in wrestling (Gemini), extremely similarly to the lower half of the XVIIII - Sun card depiction (both Virgo and Gemini are ruled by Mercury).
Jupiter looks so Hierophantish - I mean V - Popish, including an upraised hand in the act of blessing an acolyte kneeling at his feet (though the view is side-on).
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On page sixty of the same text, a wonderful allegorical woodcut from 15th century Germany shows Saturn. What is of interest here is that death, as well as the farmer's trade, are shown. Though the image is distant from our familiar depiction on XIII, the allegorical themes are severally depicted.
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Of course, this and other texts are wonderful for further astrological and pictorial study, but thought these of particular merit in our ongoing study.
...now if only I had access to a scanner...
What is of interest are looking at the images with Tarot sensitised eyes.
Each of the seven planets and twelve signs are depicted (the signs under the planet which rules it), each of the planetary depictions showing a charioteered personage who's chariot is pulled by various animals. VII - Le Chariot, as card, seems to be reflected in both/either the Sun and Mars, but no other.
Virgo is depicted seated, in ways very reminiscent of a Waite or fecund variety as depicted on III - Empress card. Interestingly, but obviously from an astrological perspective of co-rulership, she is adjacent (and faces) two children playing or engaging in wrestling (Gemini), extremely similarly to the lower half of the XVIIII - Sun card depiction (both Virgo and Gemini are ruled by Mercury).
Jupiter looks so Hierophantish - I mean V - Popish, including an upraised hand in the act of blessing an acolyte kneeling at his feet (though the view is side-on).
_____
On page sixty of the same text, a wonderful allegorical woodcut from 15th century Germany shows Saturn. What is of interest here is that death, as well as the farmer's trade, are shown. Though the image is distant from our familiar depiction on XIII, the allegorical themes are severally depicted.
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Of course, this and other texts are wonderful for further astrological and pictorial study, but thought these of particular merit in our ongoing study.
...now if only I had access to a scanner...