Cosmos & Symbols

Definition

Exploring identity, time and change through zodiac, birthstone, divinatory and natural symbols.

Under cosmos and symbols come star-sign imagery, birthstone conventions, the histories of tarot and runes, and the sun, moon and nature read as symbols.

Where a page records an association it names who recorded it and the period it belongs to.

What people said stays what people said; it is not turned into a forecast, and it is not turned into an effect a stone has.

Themes in this group

• Zodiac & Astrology
• Birthstones & Birth Months
• Tarot, Runes & Mystic Symbols
• Sun, Moon & Nature

What it does not represent

Not a prediction, personality assessment or claim that celestial cycles, symbols or materials determine a person or produce an outcome.

When to choose this group, and how its themes differ

Each theme here starts somewhere different: a star sign, a birth month, a card or a carved letterform, and the sun and moon.

The lists that pair a sign or a month with a particular stone are commercial conventions published by jewellery trade bodies, and that description applies to those pairing lists rather than to the traditions themselves.

Birthstones also have a culture page, which presents each national list alongside its issuing body and version.

Tarot, runes and mystic symbols does not decide whose reading a symbol belongs to.

Sun, moon and nature reads change through natural cycles; the branching in dendritic agate is a mineral pattern, not a plant fossil.