To understand the 16 court cards in a Tarot deck, one must first understand each rank and suit. Then, to interpret any particular card, one must use their intuition to combine these factors. This can be expressed as COURT CARD RANK + COURT CARD SUIT + YOUR INTUITION = COURT CARD INTERPRETATION.
To learn and connect with the Court Card personalities, there are two engaging techniques:
- Learn the names of the Court Cards by suit: Cups represent emotions, relationships, and intuition. Pentacles represent the material world, work, and finances. Swords represent the sword.
Understanding the hidden meanings of the 16 court cards can transform your readings and enhance your spiritual journey. Court cards represent various aspects of personality and roles, offering deep insights into our interactions and inner dynamics.
In a Tarot reading, understanding the message the court card is communicating can be difficult, but once you get it, these cards offer powerful insight. Court cards can be thought of as representing specific people, personality traits, or approaches to life. In a reading, they can point to actual people influencing you or aspects of yourself that you need more of or less of.
The Court Games Tarot is a Tarot deck made by following the symbolism and representations of ancient medieval decks. It has 78 watercolour and ink cards, with some representing personalities or behaviors. Four or more court cards tend to represent energies associated with them.
The Court Games Tarot also has some interesting deviations, such as the Hanged Man holding two bags of money, Justice sitting, and the Tower having three court cards. The original Court Games Tarot by darktarot is now available for sale, and players can use the Magician to make wilds.
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Cards used: Universal Waite Tarot by U.S. Games Systems, INC.
You could also have mentioned how, depending on the Tarot pack you’re using, each of the court cards relates to astrological signs and the elements – for those people that may have knowledge of astrology. In my pack, for example, I see the Kings as being the Cardinal signs, the Queens as being the fixed and the Knights as being the Mutable signs. These associations will be different depending on the images on the particular cards of a pack. Then, you can combine those three ‘Qualities’ with the four elements in order to arrive at a particular sign for each card. The Wands represent Fire, so in my deck, the King of Wands (Rods in my pack) represents the Cardinal (Leading) sign of the element of Fire, giving him the sign of Aries – a strong and ambitious, even ruthless leader. I use the Fixed Quality for the Queens as I see them as being very stable and ruling the land that their Kings have forcefully acquired through their direct pursuit of leadership. The Queen of Pentacles then in my pack is the sign of Taurus – the Fixed sign of the element of earth (Pentacles). These associations are very apt in my particular deck, as they can be in many other decks. You need to look at the imagery on the cards and draw associations with the signs of the zodiac. Scorpio is all about depth of feeling and emotion, absolute loyalty, genuine and unconditional love and deep psychic connectivity. So, the Queen of Cups in my deck has dark hair and a kind of fixed and purposeful gaze in her eyes that hints at her behaviour for anyone that may attempt to deceive or cross her!
This is Lori Bach. Greetings Kate! This is a great synopsis and is easy to understand. Interpretation of these cards all depends upon the other cards surrounding it, the question the querent asks, or if it’s a personal daily spread. Tarot reading takes time, patience and it has helped me get more out of my “head” and into my “gut” as I’m a Gemini Sun with Mercury in Cancer. In my past I was too analytical and this had serious consequences. My road with tarot took about six years to get “under my belt” however it was well worth it!
First of all, Kate, always enjoy listening to you. You have a lovely voice. I have been teaching myself using the Rider-Waite deck. I memorised the aces day one, the twos day two and so on. I sailed through them because the images totally tell the story of each card in this deck. However, when I reached the court cards I came to a grinding halt. There is little or no clues in the imagery and different websites seem to offer differing meanings. Just thought I would offer my reasons for struggling.
Although Waite and Crowley were both members of that lofty society the Golden Dawn; neither man completely adopted the Golden Dawn’s take on the Court Cards for his own Tarot deck: Waite, always at pains to obscure the GD wisdom he had vowed to keep out of reach of the mundane, depicted the Courts the traditional way found in old decks like the Tarot de Marseilles and the Sola Busca. Crowley mostly followed the GD scheme, however, he replaced their King by the Knight (whose destiny it was to become King one day anyway, at least in Crowley’s view as explained in The Book of Thoth).. Golden Dawn King Queen Prince Princess Rider Waite smith Knight Queen King Page Thoth Knight Queen Prince Princess The Golden Dawn’s “Holy Book” of Tarot, Book T, says: “The Knight of Wands is ‘The Lord of the Flame and Lighting: the King of the Spirits of Fire’.” Mind you, “the Knight of Wands” here refers to this figure’s name in the traditional system of the Court Cards (as was used by Waite); he becomes a King in the reformed system of the Golden Dawn and Book T, respectively. Golden Dawn members were instructed to “correct” their Continental decks accordingly. Only much, much later were Tarot decks published that show the cards (Courts and others) “exactly” as described in Book T, such as the Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn. Nevertheless, Book T gives elaborate symbolism for the Court Cards which overall was implemented by Crowley much more thoroughly than by Waite – something to ponder for folks who still believe that it was Waite who was more faithful to the GD conceptions.
This really helped me help my husband who asked about his approach to his teaching profession and got the page of cups who is the old him. He was disappointed in getting that card. He wants to move beyond it. I can see now why he got that card and that he can move beyond it to the queen or king: More presiding with love joy and less action. thank you. This helped tons.