The column

Correspondences

Margarethe Voss

Margarethe keeps the system pages: how the seventy-eight cards map to planets, signs and elements, and where those mappings came from. She works from the published sources — Papus, Waite, the Golden Dawn papers — and flags every point where they disagree.

tarot correspondences

The Four Suits and the Four Elements: Where the Map Comes From

Wands to fire, cups to water, swords to air, pentacles to earth — who decided, where the sources disagree, and why a correspondence is a map projection, not an eclipse.

By Margarethe Voss