Tarot The queens by bluemoon
Hi Celeste, HH and Caz! I find it interesting that you focus on the queen of wands in this lesson
As I think I said in an earlier post, among the cards that struck me most when doing lesson 1 were the four court card queens, each representing in their own way a powerful and beautiful person
For me, the queen of wands stands for [b]power, organisation, command, regal[/b] and [b]confidence[/b]
In the Mythic Tarot,* she is portrayed as the Greek mythological character Penelope, wife of Odysseus, who quietly, single-mindedly and efficiently governed their kingdom while her husband was away at war
So,originally by Celeste:- Alison`s interpretation of her says
.perhaps being reliant on others and possibly introvert and shy[/quote] I wonder if this might not actually be interpreted as advice? Let us try to be like the queen of wands because shyness and introversion - in certain circumstances - would be traits that held us back, that prevented us from achieving and accomplishing our goals
To consider the other suit in this lesson, I must turn to the queen of cups
I have a particular affinity and fondness for the high priestess at the moment but, I must say, this queen is climbing the rankings pretty quickly, not least of all owing to her frequent appearance in spreads I am doing
Initially, I read her as [b]a mysterious, beautiful and knowledgeable person who knows a dark secret of some description[/b]
In my deck, she is none other than Helen of Troy, an independent woman of mysterious allure whose deep passions and relentless pursuit of her heart's desire prompted the outbreak of the Trojan War
Rather less destructively, she stands for the strong perceptions and intuition that can be used for self-discovery
As a footnote, I have to say I am a little uncomfortable with the ethnically loaded and gendered nature of the descriptions of physical characteristics traditionally associated with the court cards
The physical attributes seem to be Caucasian only and, therefore, exclude a good proportion of the planet's population and, in gender terms, I see no reason - other than the survival of aspects of the mediæval/Renaissance patriarchy in which Tarot was born - why males should outnumber females
It is comforting for me, then, that the authors of my learning deck do away with these descriptions and concentrate on aspects of personality that the court cards represent in ourselves or in others
*The Mythic Tarot J
Sharman-Burke and L
Greene Cards illustrated by T
Newell Workbook published by Rider/Eddison-Sadd, 2001 edition
ISBN 0 7126 1473 7
Cards ISBN 0 7126 3002 3
other posts in this tarot thread
Lesson 08 by HH
Lesson 8
.court cards of the wands & cups by Celeste
by HH
The Queen of Wands by Caz
by WolfChild
The queens by bluemoon
by Celeste
by Mysti
by Celeste
by HH
by bluemoon
by HH
by Mysti
by bluemoon
by Caz
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