Greetings,
There is an often overlooked book that I find very helpful for understanding the planets as they relate to the zodiac.
Tarot decks based in the hermetic tradition (Golden Dawn, Thoth, Liber T, Hermetic, Tarot of Ceremonial Magick, etc) include planetary and zodiacal attributes on all 36 pip cards (2s-10s), as well as the major arcana, and court cards.
For example, the 2 of cups is attributed to Venus in Cancer. If you place the Empress (Venus) on one side, and the Chariot (Cancer) on the other side, the cards become a mandala to better understand this relationship.
Further, if you place all pip cards corresponding to Venus around the Empress, you can get a sense of the personality of the same.
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You can further connect the Empress card at her feet to the pips to see the relationship for each zodiac sign.
-Wimsaur.
As I said in my former reply, you have answered
another question, than the one I asked. Do I find outward tools useful in order to reach altered states of consciousness? Yes, but the tarot only for intra-personal exploration: For transpersonal experiences, I need a Triangle of the Art and a couple of weeks for intense preparation. The latter is rather exhausting, and not undertaken willy nilly.
With the dangerous side-effects of exploration of Saturn and Mars in mind, I would prefer voluminous Traditional information about safety measures and careful methods of electional astrology, and that information is not achieved by tarot. My latest altered state of consciousness involving Mars coincided in time with worsened health problems.
In my initial message in this thread, I expressed my misgivings over the breach with Tradition in the 1890s. What you have chosen to call
the hermetic tradition (which is a very fluid expression, which can refer to several things) is actually modern Occultism from UK in the 1890s (recognize that point in time?), afterwards influential in the former British colonies. The correspondences you tabulate were invented by William Wynn Westcott (or, more unlikely, S.L. MacGregor Mathers) for use within their oathbound esoteric order,
Golden Dawn. The correspondences you mention has to do with planetary rulership over decans, 10-degree segements of the Zodiac.
Tarot was a latecomer to Traditional Western Esotericism, and when it was added to Tradition by Count De Mellet and Antoine de Gébelin in
Le Monde primitif 1781, it was still not a part of a well-developed magical system. Divination with tarot (without any sophisticated magical correspondences) occurred in Bologna and Paris in the early 1750s, but it wasn't until 1783 Etteilla's
Maniere de se recreer avec le jeu de cartes nommees tarots: pour servir de troisieme cahier a cet ouvrage was published, with supplements published in 1784 and 1786. Etteilla associated some of the trumps with the four elements and the twelve zodiacal signs. The suite of coins was associated with the planets and the nodes.
In the system of Etteilla, the card corresponding to Mars is Five of Coins.
The idea, to associate some tarot suite-cards with the decans, was hateched by Paul Christian in 1870, but he did use an older system than the British 1890s one. The suits consists of 14 cards each, in sum 56 cards. Since the decans are only 36, that means that 20 cards must be laid aside, but which ones?
In Christian's system, the correspondences looks like this:
Aries first decan: Queen of Wands
Aries second decan: 5 of Wands
Aries third decan: 5 of Swords
Taurus first decan: 6 of Swords
Taurus second decan: Knight of Wands
Taurus third decan: 6 of Wands
Gemini first decan: 7 of Wands
Gemini second decan: 7 of Swords
Gemini third decan: Page of Wands
Cancer first decan: 8 of Wands
Cancer second decan: Queen of Cups
Cancer third decan: 8 of Swords
Leo first decan: 9 of Swords
Leo second decan: 9 of Wands
Leo third decan: Knight of Cups
Virgo first decan: Page of Cups
Virgo second decan: 10 of Swords
Virgo third decan: 10 of Wands
Libra first decan: Deuce of Cups
Libra second decan: Queen of Swords
Libra third decan: Deuce of Coins
Scorpio first decan: 4 of Coins
Scorpio second decan: 4 of Cups
Scorpio third decan: Knight of Swords
Sagittarius first decan: Page of Swords
Sagittarius second decan: 5 of Coins
Sagittarius third decan: 5 of Cups
Capricorn first decan: 6 of Cups
Capricorn second decan: Queen of Coins
Capricorn third decan: 6 of Coins
Aquarius first decan: 8 of Coins
Aquarius second decan: 8 of Cups
Aquarius third decan: Knight of Coins
Pisces first decan: Page of Coins
Pisces second decan: 9 of Coins
Pisces third decan: 9 of Cups
In 1909 Gerard Encausse (the pseudonym Papus) presented the following system instead:
Aries first decan: 3 of Wands
Aries second decan: 4 of Wands
Aries third decan: 5 of Wands
Taurus first decan: 6 of Wands
Taurus second decan: 7 of Wands
Taurus third decan: 8 of Wands
Gemini first decan: 9 of Wands
Gemini second decan: Ace of Cups
Gemini third decan: Deuce of Cups
Cancer first decan: 3 of Cups
Cancer second decan: 4 of Cups
Cancer third decan: 5 of Cups
Leo first decan: 6 of Cups
Leo second decan: 7 of Cups
Leo third decan: 8 of Cups
Virgo first decan: 9 of Cups
Virgo second decan: Ace of Swords
Virgo third decan: Deuce of Swords
Libra first decan: 3 of Swords
Libra second decan: 4 of Swords
Libra third decan: 5 of Swords
Scorpio first decan: 6 of Swords
Scorpio second decan: 7 of Swords
Scorpio third decan: 8 of Swords
Sagittarius first decan: 9 of Swords
Sagittarius second decan: Ace of Coins
Sagittarius third decan: Deuce of Coins
Capricorn first decan: 3 of Coins
Capricorn second decan: 4 of Coins
Capricorn third decan: 5 of Coins
Aquarius first decan: 6 of Coins
Aquarius second decan: 7 of Coins
Aquarius third decan: 8 of Coins
Pisces first decan: 9 of Coins
Pisces second decan: Ace of Wands
Pisces third decan: Deuce of Wands
We now have three systems to chose between, of decans corresponding to tarot cards, but it doesn't end here: In the last 15 years, or so, Aaron Leitch and Christine Payne-Towler have suggested one system of their own, each, which leaves us with
five different correspondence systems to chose between: A smorgasboard of choices. Of these five, only one was intended to be oathbound - the one you suggested. I know that Israel Regardie's decision to publish large parts of the GD system in the 1940s has left it out in the open, but I am of the firm conviction that it is risky to meddle with somebody elses egregore. Even those who are members of GD-derived orders often suffer from their egregore. The GD egregore has a reputation of causing conflicts among its members. The publicly visible adherents of the GD-system do not give the impression to be any bodhisattvas, as it were. Since I am, technically, not allowed to use the GD magical system, I leave it alone. Agrippa, Christian, Papus and the grimoires are at least open-source.
The problem of chosing a useful correspondence system do not even end here. Even if anyone choose one of the five systems under consideration, the planetary rulership of any particular decan is not a matter of consensus. Besides the so called 'Chaldaean' attributation of planets to decans, used by Paul Christian and WW Westcott alike, there also exist another one based on triplicities. This gives us TEN different systems of correspondences to chose between.