Still reading Tarot court cards like people?🔎

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Hi there Tarot Friends,

Hope you all are warm and well. I survived the cold blast -- Ugh.

The massive shifts of 2026 have started creeping in. Neptune entered Aries this week.
February brings an eclipse and the Saturn Neptune conjunction.

If you'd like to learn more about Neptune moving into Aries after 14 years in Pisces, I recommend this video.

Still reading the Tarot court like people?

In High School, I procured a cookbook Astrology book and proceeded to erect a birth chart for myself.

First obstacle: I didn’t know my birth time.

So I mailed off for my hospital birth record like a proper astro-nerd and waited.

When it arrived, I sat on the floor and built my chart by hand. One wheel led to another. Circles inside circles. Symbols stacked on symbols. A cosmic nesting doll.

That’s when it hit me:

Astrology is powerful.
Astrology is dense.

I could see the architecture immediately.

The intelligence.

Circles within circles.

And I also knew, that I was not ready to wrestle this beast, yet.

So I didn’t.

I stayed a fan. A follower. An astrology lurker.

Until 2010, when I finally decided to bite the bullet and study it properly.

I’m glad I did.

Isn’t this newsletter about Tarot?

Why are you talking about astrology?

This is for you if you’re a Tarot reader who knows the cards, reads relatively well, and yet feels… bored. Or stuck.

Or you’re really curious about astrology but have no idea where to start!

You know there’s more. You just don’t want another overwhelming system dumped on your to do list.

Good. You shouldn’t.

You don’t have to enter astrology through the front door.

Tarot has side doors to astrology. And they’re already unlocked.

Planetary Motion

Astrology doesn’t belong in Tarot as extra information.
It belongs there as motion.

Let’s talk about the Page of Swords.

That’s pure Tarot. No astrology required.

Now here’s where things get curious.

👉👉That exact job description already belongs to Mercury.

Mercury governs:

• messages, language, learning,
• curiosity
• movement of information between worlds
• Youthful. Restless. Clever.
• Sometimes premature.
• Always asking what if?

So when we say the Page of Swords aligns with Mercury, we’re not stapling astrology onto Tarot like an afterthought.

We’re recognizing that they’re describing the same energy in different dialects.

Which is why “the Page of Swords is an air sign” is deeply unsatisfying.

Gemini, Libra, Aquarius tells you a category.
​Mercury tells you what’s actually happening.

Using the planet first emphasis:

The Page of Swords isn’t “a person with sharp thoughts.”
It’s information in motion.
It’s curiosity stirring the pot.
It’s messages flying before the full story has landed.

That’s when Tarot wakes up.

And this isn’t a one-off trick. It’s a method.

Instead of breaking this down into rules or theory, I’ll leave you with an invitation.

Court Cards and Planets

Next time you’re working with the court cards, try them on as planetary forces.
Not personalities. Not people. Not zodiac signs.

Forces.

Sit with these relationships and notice what shifts in your readings:

Kings - Sun​
Radiant, visible, self-expressive energy
Purposeful leadership and authority
Oriented toward identity, direction, and “this is who I am”
The King emanates rather than reacts
Solar qualities: confidence, clarity, creative force, presence

Queens - Moon​
Receptive, inward-facing, and responsive
Nurturing, containing, and concentrating energy
Support growth, flow, and emotional intelligence
Work behind the scenes to regulate and sustain
Lunar qualities: intuition, care, rhythm, embodiment

Knights - Mars​
Active, driven, and goal-oriented
Always in motion, always after something
Focused on action, effort, pursuit, and resolution
Can show physical activity, mental exertion, or conflict
Martial qualities: courage, urgency, desire, momentum
The get-up-and-go engine of the deck

Pages - Mercury​
Curious, exploratory, information-seeking
Youthful, experimental, often androgynous in expression
Interested in learning routes, patterns, and possibilities
Gather data and carry messages between worlds
​Literal alignment: Pages deliver messages, Mercury governs communication
​Mercurial qualities: curiosity, adaptability, language, learning

You don’t need to memorize this.

Just notice it.

Notice how the courts stop describing who someone is—​
and start showing you how the energy moves.

This is one of the side doors of Tarot that leads to astrology.

P.S. Inside the Tarot Underground the 36 Secrets Book Club is about to start.
​Join us for an astrological journey through the Tarot in real time.
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-Cassandra the Card Reader
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