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When I tried learning Spanish, whenever I couldn’t remember a word my brain would automatically sub in the French (which I had studied in high school)—and I find it similarly difficult to separate my understanding of astrology and the tarot. Luckily, there are all kinds of crossovers! Officially, each of the major arcane is linked to an astrological sign—as outlined in Rachel Pollack’s book Tarot Wisdom, widely recognized as something of a tarot bible. As mentioned, Death, representing transformation, is ruled by Scorpio. The Fool, the first card in the deck, is pure Aries: naively headstrong, and also the first sign of the zodiac. And then there’s how the different suits represent the four elements, which in turn are embodied by the twelve signs of the zodiac. And then there is the way the cycles in the tarot (numbers 1–7, 8–14, and 15–21 representing different evolutionary phases in the Major Arcana, for example) could be said to mirror the waxing and waning phases of the Moon.