Tarot by bluemoon
Hi Celeste! Thank you for sharing your insights into the queen and king of swords
As ever, your views are interesting and perceptive and there is a lot of common ground between us
You mention Clive Barrett asigns all his court cards to two:- elements, firstly by association of the suit and secondly by rank so that the king is fire, the queen, water, the prince/knight, air and the princess/page earth
I think this is a variation on a common theme in that the two authors I am using to help me better understand the Tarot do something similar
Sharman-Burke* regards the court cards' basic natures as a combination of their suit element and their quality which she assigns as follows: pages = potential, fragile beginnings, initiatory promise; knights = mutable, flexible, adaptable, volatile; queens = fixed, constant, contained; kings = cardinal, dynamic, enterprising
Bunning** asserts that the court cards differ in their suits but share the following in common: pages = symbols of adventure and possibility; knights = spirit, energy and excess; queens = being, inward-looking, feeling; kings = doing, outward-looking, assertion, directness
Whichever system is adopted, if it allows us to better understand the court cards and work with them then it will have served its main purpose
* The Mythic Tarot J
Sharman-Burke and L
Greene Cards illustrated by T
Newell, ISBN 0 7126 3002 3 Workbook published by Rider/Eddison-Sadd, 2001 edition
ISBN 0 7126 1473 7
** http://www.learntarot.com/
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