Four astrological elements in tarot
There are 4 elements of Astrology -- fire, water, air and earth -- and they relate respectively to
the 4 psychological functions described by Carl Jung as
intuition, feeling, thinking and sensation.
An esoteric Tarot deck also contains four suits not including the major arcana, referred to as trumps.
These suits correspond to the aforementioned elements such that Wands is symbolic of Fire,
Cups of Water, Swords of Air, and Coins of Earth. These correlations are pictured below,
counter-clockwise, along with the four seasons.
As the elements rotate through the signs, they alternate in the opposite
elements--first Aries/Fire, then Taurus/Earth, next Gemini/Air, then Cancer/Water, etc.
through the twelve signs as illustrated above until the next sign is Aries again, in an endless circle.
This endless loop is also apparent in the Latin word for wheel, ROTA,
which can be spelled circularly as R-O-T-A-R-O-T-A-...
