For this tarot and natal astrology workshop, you’ll need a copy of your birth chart and
some basic Western astrology know-how for reading your birth chart.
Beyond that, you can work with Placidus, Whole Signs, Equal House, Koch, or any system of
your choosing, Tropical or Sidereal Zodiac.
Totally up to you.
We’re going to cross-reference your birth chart with the tarot and then study those
corresponding tarot cards to better understand you.
There’s a handout for you to download that’s going to contain the tarot and astrology reference
tables you’ll need, keyed specifically to the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot.
Let’s say that the Major Arcana of the tarot reveal the Inner Mysteries of who you are,
meaning your engine, what fuels you, your inner workings, what makes you tick, how all
the gears in your mind and in your spirit turn under that hood that is your body.
The 21 cards ordered into the 3 Septenaries you see on screen represent 21 components
to every human soul’s engine.
But exactly what these 21 components look like in you, now that’s what makes you,
you.
In this video workshop, we are going to focus only on three Major Arcana archetypes that
make you who you are, notably the three Keys that correspond with your sun, moon, and rising,
or ascendant sign.
For anyone who needs a quick refresher, see on screen for guidance on how to locate your
sun sign, moon sign, and your ascendant sign, your rising sign will either be a glyph, such
as As or Asc in a Whole Signs chart, or it’s going to be an arrow pointing eastward, or
left, as you see on screen.
You’ll also find the following Major Arcana and astrological correspondences wheel charts
in the Book of Maps and for download in the video description box.
We will be referencing these charts for revealing the Inner Mysteries of you, through your sun,
moon, and rising.
The chart on the left features the Traditional Planetary Rulerships, while the chart on the
right features the Modern Planetary Rulerships.
You’ll need to decide which system you want to work with– Traditional or Modern.
And for those who work better with written out charts, I got you.
Just check out the PDF handout.
On screen is Judith Butler’s birth chart, Tropical Whole Signs.
Let’s locate their sun sign.
They are a sun sign Leo.
Of course.
Am I right?
Now, we also want to work with the planetary rulers of the sun, moon, and rising.
You’ve got this handy reference chart in the downloadable handout.
The planetary ruler for Butler’s sun sign Leo is the sun.
You’re going to be filling in this blank chart from the handout.
Butler’s sun sign is Leo.
The planetary ruler for Leo is the Sun.
Locate this table on your handout– Astrological Correspondences in the SKT Major Arcana.
What is the Major Arcana Key associated with Leo?
Key 8: The Force.
And what about the planetary ruler of Leo?
That’s the sun, which corresponds with Key 19: The Warrior.
Note also how you can identify the astrological correspondence for the Majors along the top
left corner of each card.
Now let’s move on to the moon sign.
Judith Butler’s moon sign is Libra.
The planetary ruler for Libra is Venus.
Now it’s your turn.
What’s your moon sign, and what is that sign’s planetary ruler?
Fill in the Major Arcana Correspondences table.
Bringing that Astrological Correspondences table again, Libra is assigned to Key 11:
The Chancellor.
That’s the Justice card.
And Venus, the planetary ruler, is assigned to Key 3: The Empress.
With your birth chart in one hand and the on-screen reference table handy, you should
be able to fill out that first row of Major Arcana Correspondences on the worksheet.
And now let’s integrate a bit of I Ching.
Recall how there is the trigram correspondence in the bottom left corner of each card?
The sign is the lower trigram and the planetary ruler is the upper trigram.
On screen, because The Magus is one of the six powers, it’s designated by a power cross.
That means the trigram on Key 9: The Erudite is doubled.
Remember this chart?
The trigram symbol on The Erudite is Mountain.
Doubled means Mountain over Mountain.
We look it up in the I Ching section of your Book of Maps, and note that Mountain over
Mountain is Hexagram 52: Quiet Heart.
On screen right now you see the Major Arcana table filled out for Judith Butler, per their
birth chart.
The power crosses for The Force, Chancellor, and The Magus means the paired up trigram
is doubled.
You get Fire over Fire for the sun sign, Heaven over Heaven for the moon, and Mountain over
Mountain for the ascendant, or rising sign.
Review the Tarot and I Ching video in this series to get a refresher on how to construct
the hexagrams.
The oracle messages corresponding with each of these three signs will offer you insight
and spiritual guidance into your innate life path.
The Minor Arcana Two through Tens reveal aspects of the Outer Mysteries, as do the court cards,
which govern your personality and character.
Understanding the Outer Mysteries that make you who you are is to understand the ways
you tend to respond to external stimuli, your social nature, the way you tend to react or
respond in situations.
These are life events, recurring life lessons, recurring themes.
The court cards can reveal dominant personality traits.
Gifts, talents, strengths, weaknesses.
Now let’s move on to the second page of the worksheet.
The color-coded reference wheel you see on screen shows the Minor Arcana pip cards, Twos
through Tens, and the decan ruler correspondences.
On the Twos through Tens in the SKT, on screen for example you see the Eight of Scepters
(that’s the Eight of Wands card), the decan rulership is printed in the top left and right
corners, the decanate in the top left, and the sign that it’s in, in the top right.
Looking back over on the reference wheel, 8W means 8 of Wands.
You’ll see that this corresponds with the key title The Sharpshooter.
Mercury is the decanate.
Sagittarius is the sign.
One more example, the Three of Swords.
Saturn is the decanate.
Libra is the sign the decanate ruler occupies.
3S is circled on the chart, for Three of Swords.
Saturn in Libra.
This wheel version of the chart is basically this, the table you’ll find on the worksheet.
The Sharpshooter, Eight of Scepters, find that on the table.
And The Bereaved, the Three of Swords.
The Minor Arcana cards corresponding to key placements in your birth chart reveal the
Outer Mysteries of you.
These are going to be external events or recurring themes in your life that you’re more prone
to experiencing.
This is your social nature, the masks you wear, your persona, how you are perceived,
how the outer world reacts to you, and how you react to external stimuli.
On screen I’m putting the reference wheel on the left, and a birth chart for demonstration
on the right.
The sun sign here is Pisces.
You’ll see on the natal chart that it’s under Saturn in Pisces, the first decanate.
Now on the reference wheel you’ll see how Saturn in Pisces corresponds with the tarot
card 8C, for 8 of Cups.
In the SKT, that’s The Defector.
Let’s move on to the Rising Sign.
Here we are working with a Placidus Chart, so you’re looking for that arrow, the ascendant.
It points to Mars in Aries.
On the chart to the left, you’ll see that Mars in Aries corresponds with 2W, that’s
2 of Wands.
In the SKT, the suit is renamed to Scepters, and the key title here is The Discerning One.
By the way, curious what type of writer or speaker you are?
Let’s take a look at the placement of your Mercury sign.
Here, it’s under the first decanate of Aquarius, because it’s 8 degrees, so that’s Venus
in Aquarius.
In the wheel chart on the left, you’ll note this corresponds with 5S, the 5 of Swords,
or The Hector.
Locate this table in the handout, on the second page.
You’ll be referencing your birth chart and the reference tables to fill in these boxes.
If you know the degree placement of your sun, moon, and ascendant, or rising sign, you’ll
be able to use this chart to figure out the decan rulership.
On screen I’m sharing with you the decanates that rule over my sun, moon, and rising.
From the decanates, you can tell that my sun sign Libra is placed somewhere between 0 degrees
and 10 degrees, due to the decanate ruler being the Moon.
My moon sign is Leo, and if you know that the decanate ruler is Mars, then you know
that my moon placement is somewhere between 21 degrees and 30 degrees.
My rising sign Aquarius under the decanate ruler Venus means it’s placed between 0
degrees and 10 degrees.
Cool, huh?
Returning to this correspondence table in your handout, you’ll be able to note which
Minor Arcana cards correspond with your sun, moon, and rising decanate rulers.
My Moon in Libra is the Two of Swords, The Blind Seer.
Mars in Leo for my moon is the Seven of Scepters, The Dark Horse.
And my Venus in Aquarius decanate ruler over my rising sign, my ascendant, is the Five
of Swords, The Hector.
Now as I fill out my chart, go ahead and fill out yours.
Pull out the cards from the deck to study as well.
Read the entries in the Little White Booklet and the Book of Maps.
Take some time to ponder on how these cards represent facets of you.
What does the Minor Arcanum associated with your sun sign reveal about the mask you wear
when you socially interact with the world?
What does the Minor Arcanum associated with your natal moon reveal about the way you think,
how you process your emotions?
And what does the Minor Arcanum associated with your ascendant sign reveal about who
you truly are, a piece of your inner self that does from time to time get seen.
This card can kind of represent a recurring theme in terms of your life path, or fate.
We are done for this session, but here’s a bonus.
The court cards.
Who are you in the tarot courts?
You can superimpose your birth chart over this court cards reference wheel.
Line it up, so the Aries house in your birth chart aligns with the Aries sector in the
reference wheel, Taurus with Taurus, and so on.
That way you can see exactly which court cards are the personality traits that you most exude
in those particular areas of your life, per the astrological houses that the court card
occupies.
You can also place the reference wheel side by side with your birth chart.
Let’s take Judith Butler’s sun sign Pisces, for example.
By the way this chart is cast under the Equal House system.
The position of the sun in their chart corresponds with the King of Cups, or in the SKT, that’s
the Archangel of Healing.
Here is someone who heals, who mends what is broken in this world, and also someone
who navigates the shadows with heart-centered consciousness.
My sun, as you may recall, is under the rulership of the decanate Moon in Libra.
My moon is under the decanate Mars in Leo.
The court card associated with my sun is The Scarlet Shield, or in tarot, that’s the
Queen of Swords.
My moon sign personality traits, assets, blessings, and attributes manifest as the Archangel of
Mysteries, or in the tarot, that’s the King of Pentacles.
Note that in the Thoth, that’s the Knight of Disks.
My ascendant sign, Aquarius at 4 degrees, so that’s the decanate Venus in Aquarius,
means the core of my identity is very Knight of Swords, or in the SKT, The Shining Gale.
In summary, figure out the three Major Arcana cards that correspond with your sun, moon,
and rising, and an additional three corresponding with their planetary rulers.
Then fill out this page of the worksheet.
These will reveal quite a bit about the Inner Mysteries of you.
Then figure out the three Minor Arcana cards that correspond with the decanate rulers over
your sun, moon, and rising.
Complete that second page of the handout for yourself.
These three cards are often recurring themes in your life.
Your social interactions tend to be very much aligned with the Minor Arcana card for your
sun.
How you deal with emotions align with the Minor Arcana card for your moon.
And a power potential you were born with is revealed by the Minor Arcana for your ascendant.
And finally, optional bonus, that third wheel with the court cards, per the correspondences
found in Aleister Crowley’s Book of Thoth.
Locate the court card for your sun, and for your moon, and for your ascendant.
One more bonus.
Working with the cards that correspond with your Life Path number.
On screen I’m showing you mine, Life Path 7.
So in the Majors, that’s Key 7: The Chariot and Key 16: The Tower, because 1 + 6 is 7.
Then take out the four cards in that numerical Realm from the Minors.
So for me, that’s the four Sevens.
The 12 astrological cards from the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot we covered in this workshop
reveal the Inner Mysteries and Outer Mysteries of you.
This layout you see is the spread I created for myself, based on my birth chart.
Sun sign.
Planetary ruler of my sun.
Moon sign.
Planetary ruler of my moon.
Ascendant sign.
Planetary ruler of my ascendant, under a traditional rulership.
Decanate ruler of my sun.
Decanate ruler of my moon.
And decanate ruler of my ascendant.
P.S.
The top right corner zodiac sign on the Minors should match the top left corner zodiac signs
on the Majors in this spread of personal cards.
And these are the court cards corresponding with the decanate rulers of my sun, moon,
and rising.
Create a spread or map of personal tarot cards like what you see on screen, for yourself.
I would take out the cards from the deck and set them out on a table the way I have on
screen, and take a photo of it.
That top row reveals the Inner Mysteries that, when you understand them fully, will activate
your full potential and power.
That bottom row reveals the Outer Mysteries, which, after you understand these cards fully,
will give you full control over your life path.
Dedicate time to really study these 12 cards.
May these be the cards you know the best in the SKT Revelation.
It might help to pause the video here and keep this screen up as reference while you
study your map of cards, the layout of 12 keys, Majors and Minors, that, if you can
understand them well, are the keys to knowing yourself.
They inspire the revelation of you.
These are the keys to your spiritual self-realization.