'Court Cards' Category

Astrology and Complementry Signs

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Astrology has a concept of opposites signs. These are signs that are 180 degrees across the chart from each other.  The word opposite may bring up an inaccurate understanding.  Its not opposite in the sense that fire & water are opposites but more of a complement to each other. They share a core value but have [...]

Elements and Court Cards

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Order and Elemental Attributions of Suit Most tarot readers and most tarot decks us the following elemental attributions for the suits. The order and gender come from the order and gender of the letters of the Tetragrammaton. Element Tetragrammaton Gender Suit Fire Yod Male Wands Water Heh Female Cups Air Vau Male Swords Earth Heh [...]

Astrology & Court Cards

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

The signs of the zodiac have attributions of element and quality.  These attributions rotate around the wheel of the zodiac in a systematic order.  Starting in March with Aries the Elements are Fire, Earth, Air and Water.  The qualities are Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable. In the  simplified version of the golden dawn system of attribution [...]

Comparison of Court Cards by Rank:

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

Rider-Waite, Golden Dawn and Thoth Knights – Queens – Kings – Pages Element Tetragrammaton Gender Rider-Waite Rank Golden Dawn Rank Thoth Rank Fire Yod Male Knight King Knight Water “>Heh Female > Queen Queen Queen Air Vau Male King Prince Prince Earth Heh Female Page Princess Princess Fire: Knights RWS Golden Dawn Thoth Knight of [...]

The Elements of Knights & Kings

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

Comparison of the Knights and Kings By Suit Wands – Cups – Swords – Pentacles Element Tetragrammaton Gender Rider-Waite Rank Golden Dawn Rank Thoth Rank Fire Yod Male Knight King Knight Water “>Heh Female > Queen Queen Queen Air Vau Male King Prince Prince Earth Heh Female Page Princess Princess Wands RWS Golden Dawn Magical [...]