Macavity
Here's a basic lay-question, that has been prompted by some of these discussions on the use of astrological "correspondances" within Tarot.
With no particular knowledge of astrology, it appears to me that the predictive and "characterising" ideas from e.g. a Birth Chart are fairly immutable? I vaguely recollect a book which discussed (perhaps?) one essential difference between astrology compared to Tarot, Runes... was the dynamic nature of the latter - the iteractions with the querent (question) etc. Simply, a reading could differ from one spread to the next. (N.B. This latter statement is perhaps not strictly true from a Tarotist viewpoint!) BUT how "dynamic" - Or indeed "static" is astrology? Would a "static" (reproducible!) reading indeed be a virtue? Is this the essential difference compared to other divinatory methods?
Macavity (perhaps not explaining this too well, but...)
With no particular knowledge of astrology, it appears to me that the predictive and "characterising" ideas from e.g. a Birth Chart are fairly immutable? I vaguely recollect a book which discussed (perhaps?) one essential difference between astrology compared to Tarot, Runes... was the dynamic nature of the latter - the iteractions with the querent (question) etc. Simply, a reading could differ from one spread to the next. (N.B. This latter statement is perhaps not strictly true from a Tarotist viewpoint!) BUT how "dynamic" - Or indeed "static" is astrology? Would a "static" (reproducible!) reading indeed be a virtue? Is this the essential difference compared to other divinatory methods?
Macavity (perhaps not explaining this too well, but...)