What about the court cards? I find these ones fascinating. In the Book of Thoth, Crowley says that these often represent actual people. They also follow the formula of Tetragrammaton: Yod Heh Vav Heh; Father, Mother, Son, Daughter; Fire, Water, Air, Earth.
All but the princesses have Zodiacal attributions, but the princesses seem to represent four types of “elemental” people. She rules the quadrants around the North Pole.
Anyway, it’s very interesting how accurate the cards are for representing actual people. I am a Pisces rising (26 degrees) and a Virgo Sun (22 degrees): Queen of Wands, Queen of Swords. I use the sidereal placements, not the Western tropical. It’s just more accurate imo. So the queen of Wands is the watery part of fire and the queen of Swords is the watery part of air.
What do you guys think about the court cards? I think the Thoth cards do a better job at symbolic representation of the court cards.
Quote:These cards constitute a pictorial analysis of the powers of the four letters of the Name and the four Elements. They are also referred to the Zodiac; but instead of assigning the three decans of each sign to one card, the influence begins with th last decan of one sign to the second decan of the next. There is a further difficulty. It might well be expected that the elemental attribution would harmonize with the Zodiacal attribution; but it is not so. ...
The convenience of these arrangements is that these cards are suitable as being descriptive, in a rough and empirical fashion, of divers types of men and women. One may say briefly that any of these cards is a picture of the person whose Sun, or whose rising sign at his nativity, falls within the Zodiacal attribution of the card. This, a person born on 12th October might possess many of the qualities of the Queen of Swords; while, if he were born shortly after midnight, he would add many of the characteristics of the Prince of Wands.
All but the princesses have Zodiacal attributions, but the princesses seem to represent four types of “elemental” people. She rules the quadrants around the North Pole.
Anyway, it’s very interesting how accurate the cards are for representing actual people. I am a Pisces rising (26 degrees) and a Virgo Sun (22 degrees): Queen of Wands, Queen of Swords. I use the sidereal placements, not the Western tropical. It’s just more accurate imo. So the queen of Wands is the watery part of fire and the queen of Swords is the watery part of air.
What do you guys think about the court cards? I think the Thoth cards do a better job at symbolic representation of the court cards.