Hello Bergere, the Thoth has indeed established a very general link between geography and the tarot
The Aces and Princesses/Pages of each suit rule a quarter of Earh, mapped from above, from the skies.
Ace and Princesses/Page of Disks/Pentacles rule Spring and Africa (imho one reason why the Thoth Queen of Disks looks on a desert) and Europe
Ace and Princesses/Page of Wands: Summer and Asia
Ace and Princesses/Page of Cups: Autumn and the Pacifics
Ace and Princesses/Page of Swords: Winter and Americas
The suits are assigned to the seasons for astronomical reasons: the
Royal Stars that rule the seasons appear in the fixed signs. In the fixed signs, each season reaches its peak.
In Spring: Aldebaran in Taurus - Disks
In the Summer: Regulus in Leo - Wands
In Autumn: Antares in Scorpio - Cups
In Winter: Fomalhaut in Aquarius - Swords
If you take a globe and look down from the North Pole, and you start at Greenwich and travel now around the Earth, you can separate it roughly into four quarters: Europe and Africa - Asia - the Pacifics - the Americas.
On my globe, Greenwich and the
Prime Meridian is even emphasized with a strong line.
Okay, I took this picture of the world seen from above and quartered it (the quartered circle is an ancient sign of Earth and
M.M.Meleen has written about it a very interesting article).
We have to move the lines a bit because North Africa is to the East of Greenwich so it doesn't really want to be part of the Spring quarter
but you can see how it works out.
The wonderful thing about this is that everything fits together. If you watch the skies, you know the importance of the Royal Stars as indicators of the seasons (of course, every star indicates the opposite season because you can see it only when it's not in conjunction with the Sun). And if you project their celestial realms on our terrestrial globe, you get four realms. It's also nice that Aces and Princesses rule them because they symbolize the highest and lowest sephira of the Tree of Life - Aces are Kether, Princesses Malkuth.
So you get a map, a sequence of seasons and the appearance of dominant stars all together.
You can fill the zodiac between the Royal Stars of course and can now project the zodiac signs onto the map of the Earth.
You simply follow the lines of the longitudes and count the zodiac signs around the globe.
The weak point of course is always the Prime Meridian. It's easy to see where the Point Zero for latitudes is - North and South Pole. But there is no West or East pole, so the point where we start counting longitudes is a human convention.
If you disregard the Prime Meridian, you can still cut the globe nicely into the Four Quarters of the esoteric assignments.
I made a little diagram for myself:
but once you understand how it's all connected, it's easy to remember.
and here is the globe with the zodiac signs:
The connection to the TdM is easy - if you follow esoteric tradition.
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