Court Cards: infamous among Tarot practitioners for their slippery refusal to be interpreted with ease. Four Court “ranks” across four Suits yields up 16 distinct personalities to understand and keep track of. That’s a pretty large cast of characters, and without handy “cosmic job descriptions” such as “The Empress” or “The Hermit” to help us … More TAROT TIP: Dealing with Court Cards
Some readers will take a card out of the deck, and set it on the table to represent the person receiving the reading. This can serve to sort of psychologically place the reading’s recipient right into the reading in a very visual way. I don’t use significators, myself – I don’t like the idea of … More Significator Cards
Court Cards. Pages, Knights, Queens, and Kings. These characters were the focus of last night’s Tarot Toolkit class session. The “people cards” in Tarot… This group is widely acknowledged as the trickiest and most frustrating subset of cards to interpret. How about you? Do you like them? Do you “get” them? Do you have favorites? … More Tarot Court Cards
When I first learned Tarot, I focused on the Rider-Waite-Smith deck (“RWS”). I primarily did this by working with a couple of more modern decks that are based on the RWS, but that was my template. And as I like to tell people, I imprinted on the RWS system hard, like a baby duck on its … More Woman of Soul…
It’s a pretty well-known fact among Tarot types that the Court Cards – that would be the Pages (or Princesses), Knights (/Princes), Queens, and Kings – are generally seen as being pretty much the trickiest cards to interpret in the entire deck. One school of thought holds that they always represent real people. Another says … More Tarot: An Elementary Technique for Interpreting Court Cards
Yes, you — the person reading this post right now. See, ever since I launched this blog, I’ve been writing about any occult-related topic that leaps into my fevered brain whenever I sit down to add a new entry. I don’t want to limit myself to only writing about, say…Runes. Or Mythology. Or dreams and … More I drew this just for you…