Tarot as a Celestial Journey: Celestial Map And The Suns Path Shown

last week(edited)

Tarot as a Celestial Journey — coordinate-based map

This is a full-sky, J2000.0 equatorial-coordinate chart using an astronomical Mollweide projection. Right ascension increases toward the left (the celestial-map convention). The map is not a specific night's sky above the viewer.

Physical sky layer

Stars are placed using J2000 equatorial coordinates (RA and Dec), using a selected bright-star subset from the d3-celestial star catalogue, plus conventional constellation line-figure vertices.
The constellation stick figures were transcribed from d3-celestial's constellations.lines.json, rounded to the nearest tenth of a degree. These are traditional line figures, not official IAU constellation boundaries.
The Sun's apparent annual path (the ecliptic) is computed from J2000 ecliptic longitude with mean obliquity 23.4392911°, not hand-drawn.
The turquoise line is the calculated galactic equator (galactic latitude b = 0°) from the IAU J2000 north galactic pole at RA 192.8594813°, Dec +27.1282511°. The pale surrounding glow is schematic, not a calibrated Milky Way image.
The bright markers show calculated intersections of the ecliptic with the galactic equator at approximately RA 90.0253°, Dec +23.4393° and RA 270.0253°, Dec -23.4393°. Here the labels Silver Gate and Golden Gate are symbolic terms from the video, not physical astronomical structures.
Polaris is at approximately RA 38°, Dec +89.3° in this rounded chart.

Tarot overlay

Pink circles and short titles are interpretive anchors and do not represent measured astronomical objects, nor a claim that the original Tarot was laid out as a modern celestial atlas. Some cards (e.g., Magician, Hierophant, Wheel, Tower, Moon, World) do not have a single meaningful RA/Dec position; those are listed in the sidebar without inventing a point. The card correlations are derived from the supplied "The Keys to the Tarot" transcript and associated traditional astrological correspondences, where indicated. The map is designed to keep the astronomy visible and distinguish it from the interpretation.

Limitations

A J2000 position chart should not be treated as a map for an ancient historical epoch: precession changes the equatorial frame over centuries.
The ecliptic is the mean geometric J2000 ecliptic; the actual apparent Sun's instantaneous geocentric latitude, aberration, and nutation are outside this diagram's scope.
The cyan Galactic equator is a great circle; the optical Milky Way is uneven and does not have a fixed ±12° width.
The artwork is an initial coordinate-based study atlas, not an authenticated reconstruction of a historical Tarot maker's cosmology.