Tarot and horoscope

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-1990) was born Rajneesh Chandra Mohan in Kuchwara, a town in central India. Various sources state that “Bhagwan” means either “The Blessed One” or “God” and that “Shree” means Master. At the end of his life, he changed his name to Osho.
“If we cannot create the ‘new man’ in the coming 20 years, then humanity has no future. The holocaust of a global suicide can only be avoided if a new kind of man can be created.”
About The Osho Tarot Cards.
The Osho Tarot cards hold 79 cards, divided into 4 suits. The suits in the deck are clouds, water, fire and rainbows. The additional Osho card is considered to be the basis of the name given to this type of tarot card deck. The cards are each numbered, offering a means for identification and assistance with the interpretation of the cards. The Osho Zen Tarot deck was developed by Ma Deva Padma, an artist and student of the Osho discipline. Through this series of cards, the goal was to impart the Zen and Osho wisdom upon others, so that they could gain and benefit from this instruction.
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At first glance the I Ching seems like a great chowder of images. Familiar, ordinary ones: a bowl, spoon, window, wheel. Urban, pastoral, alleyways, cows. Bizarre, fairy tale. And there are snatches of strange stories imbedded in fortune cookie epigrams, common sense amid gibberish.
Beneath it all, sixty-four hexagrams. A geometrical reiteration of two elements whose values are the simple inversion of each other (open/closed, black/white, zero/one; broken/ unbroken; male/female [cable connections, plugs]. Responsive/ receptive). Pure, whole numbers. Each hexagram has a name, and from that name come images. From the images come implications and from those implications come potential actions. Each hexagram: the systematic, natural, patterned unfolding of a cycle in graphic form.
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The William Blake Tarot explores the mystical vision and artistry of the renowned English painter and poet. Through rich interpretations focused on creative undertakings, it has long been the deck of choice for artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers.

The Tarot is a deck of cards that originated over 500 years ago in northern Italy. Although the Tarot was first used in a game called Triumphs, it was quickly adopted as a tool for divination, and popularized by occult societies such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The early Tarot symbolism was deeply rooted in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, but over the centuries it has grown to incorporate everything from Astrology and Kabbalah to Runes and the I Ching . Today, the Tarot is far and away the most popular tool for spiritual introspection in the West.
Re-engrav’d Time after Time
Ever in their youthful prime,
My design unchang’d remains.
William Blake (1757 – 1827)

A British scholar and historian of occultism and mysticism. Waite was born on October 2, 1857, in Brooklyn, New York, and brought to London, England, by his family when he was an infant. He was educated in Roman Catholic schools. As a boy, he cherished an affection for “penny dreadfuls,” the romantic popular pulp literature of the day.
Waite grew up during the first European renaissance of occultism which stretched from the end of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War I, and his personal friends included Arthur Machen, William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley.
For some twenty years he edited anonymously its monthly “Re-view of Periodical Literature.” During this period he acquired a knowledge of the major current developments in occultism all over the world.
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One must now digress into the history of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the British society reconstituted by Dr. Westcott and his colleagues, in order to show further evidence as to the authenticity of the claim of the promulgators of the cipher manuscript.
Among these papers, besides the attribution of the Tarot, were certain skeleton rituals, which purported to contain the secrets of initiation; the name (with an address in Germany) of a Fraülein Sprengel was mentioned as the issuing authority. Dr. Westcott wrote to her; and, with her permission, the Order of the Golden Dawn was founded in 1886.
(The G .’. D .’. is merely a name for the Outer or Preliminary Order of the R.R. et A.C., which is in its turn an external manifestation of the A .’. A.’. which is the true Order of Masters—See Magick, pp.229-244.) [An impudent mushroom swindle, calling itself "Order of Hidden Masters", has recently appeared---and disappeared.]
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Mayan civilization came into existence over one thousand years; the ancient Maya interpreted and understood time in a particular way which was totally different from any other existing culture or civilization. This Mesoamerican form of astrology was one of the most advanced forms of astrology of its time. The Mayan Calendar was known as the Tzolk’in and consisted of 20 day signs with 13 galactic numbers which gave a 260 day period calendar.
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Nostradamus

Michel de Nostredame , later to be known as the famous psychic Nostradamus was born on December 14th, 1503 in St. Remy de Provence, France. His education in part was influenced by his families descent, which was Jewish, though he and his family converted to Catholicism when he was a young boy. He studied Jewish occult literature as well as astrology, which led to his introduction to Latin, Greek and Hebrew. In his later years, he was sent to Avignon, France, to study medicine. His education in medicine gained him a bachelor degree and it was soon after that he started the path of healing and was even instrumental in developing methods of treatment, which helped those suffering from the Black Plague.
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Astrology

Astrology in the USA
In the United States, a great surge of popular interest in astrology took place between 1900 through 1949. A very popular astrologer based in New York City named Evangeline Adams helped feed the public’s thirst for astrology readings with many accurate forecasts, her biographers say. A famous court case involving Adams, who was arrested and charged with illegal fortune-telling in 1914 – was later dismissed when Adams correctly read the horoscope of the judge’s son with only a birthdate. Her acquittal set an American precedent that if astrologers practiced in a professional manner that they were not guilty of any wrong-doing.
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History of Astrology

Babylonian astrology
The history of astrology can now be traced back to ancient Babylonia, and indeed to the earliest phases of Babylonian history, in the third millennium B.C.[1][2]
In Babylonia as well as in Assyria as a direct offshoot of Sumerian culture (or in general the Mesopotamian culture), astrology takes its place in the official cult as one of the two chief means at the disposal of the priests (who were called bare or “inspectors”) for ascertaining the will and intention of the gods, the other being through the inspection of the liver of the sacrificial animal.
The earliest extant Babylonian astrology text is the Enuma Anu Enlil (literally meaning “When the gods Anu and Enlil…”), dating back to 1600 B.C. This text describes various astronomical omens and their application to national and political affairs. For example, a segment of the text says: “If in Nisannu the sunrise appears sprinkled with blood, battles. Nisannu is the Babylonian month corresponding to March/April in the Western calendar.
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