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