fatidic circles

hopefully someone can help...

i recently got the ibis tarot-- full of egyptian symbolism which i don't understand yet. anyway, the deck is based on illustrations from the book 'practical astrology' by C deSaint-Germain. in the book,there are tables of what are called 'fatidic circles' for each of the traditional planets plus the rose-cross.

these table run through the tarot deck and give astrological corrospondences for each card. the corrospondences are not always the same for a particular card in each of the tables.

my question is:

what are these circles, and how do you use them?

dazed and confused
ravenswing

Fatidic means concerned with predicting fates, the power of prophecy. As far as I can tell by a little research the fatidic circles referred to are the author’s own invention. Saint Germain was an eighteenth century French nobleman and alchemist. There is confused evidence of his dates of birth and death and how old he actually was – indeed speculation that he live a very long life. You can find out more about him at:

http://www.alchemylab.com/count_saint_germain.htm

Whether he actually wrote Pracitcal Astrology seems uncertain but the following site gives some good arguments that whoever did produced original work and was a fairly advance occultist.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6243/lazybear.html

I haven’t come across either him or the book before and the latter is well outside the mainstream of Astrology by all accounts. It attempts to integrate, Astrology, Tarot and Numerology. As far as I can tell the fatidic circles are unique to this book and seem to replace the need for an ephemeris It certainly doesn't get any reference in the mainstream astrological literature.

Given that the deck is not 'original' to the book I would be rather wary of using it - however that isn't to say that you might not get something out of it.

Minderwiz