tarotbear
To me tarot is tarot and astrology is astrology - 2 separate disciplines and not really anything to do with each other at all. As a user of magic I can see that there are correspondences everywhere and you can link many things but I think I'm just an earthy type of person and all that star stuff doesn't gel with me.
I've found that many people just assume that I'm into astrology because I'm into tarot - they tell me their star sign, rising sign and stuff like that and then are quite shocked when I say I know nothing about star signs..
This is EXACTLY how I feel - especially the second paragraph! Oh, I know a couple of rudimentary things because they related somehow to me (The King of Pents is a Taurus, that type of stuff). It you want to add EVERYTHING there is that can relate to tarot {and so many occult disciplines overlap} - Hey - knock yourself out! Personally - that Quabblah stuff ~ 'He's the Water of Fire' sounds stupid to say out loud, and dropping those phrases on a Querent makes you sound like an alien life form, IMHO.
No - I only read Tarot cards. They are a lifetime or two of learning unto themselves and I don't feel I need to learn a second lifetime discipline on top of it.