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Tarot vs Astrology - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between tarot and astrology

is that tarot is a card game played in various different variations while astrology is divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies.

tarot

English

(wikipedia tarot)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
  • Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.
  • Quotations

    * 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed. *: [...] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon. * 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140445803&id=lRbXDsA9u4AC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&sig=s0cNY_83AgaK_TWOEA1qpv95tuQ] *: They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot . *: As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another. * 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0199246297&id=hGm9Dj5OmF8C&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&sig=rjtFvOxVBgk1cro3fLQ5bLn9Eqw] *: In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; [...]

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    astrology

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Divination]] about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of [[celestial body, celestial bodies.
  • * c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Canterbury Tales , Harleian manuscript:
  • a pore scoler / had lerned art but al his fantasye / was torned for to lerne astrologye […].
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 274:
  • For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements.
  • * 2012 , The Guardian , (headline), 7 Feb 2012:
  • Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.

    Synonyms

    * , astromancy

    See also

    * astronomy