"She weaves individual strands into a tapestry, creating common ground and common cause."
Category: Court cards
Queering the Tarot | King of Swords
This King’s sword is double edged, and like most (if not all) of the Swords cards, there are ways we can still 'win' whatever it is we are facing or fighting.
Queering the Tarot | Knight of Swords
This card can be a beautiful call to action and a powerful source of encouragement and affirmation to our community in ever-trying political times.
How to sort the courts part 6: Seeding with the Pages
How to sort the courts part 5: Questing with the Knights
Just in time for Sagittarius season, Siobhan writes about the mutable signs and the questing knights.
How to sort the courts part 4: Honing power with the kings
The Queen of Cups & going with autumn’s strange flow
This week the Queen of Cups reminded me of the value of surrender... and how hard it can be to 'go with the flow'.
How to sort the courts part 3: Stories of the modern day queen
Siobhan shows how we can write new origin stories for the tarot's queens, reclaiming them for ourselves.
Beyond Kings & Queens: Renaming the tarot’s court cards
There are many different ways to rename the court cards in tarot, and each system teaches us something new about these characters.
How to sort the courts part 2: Foundational layers
Part II of How to Sort the Courts: A guide to sorting and understanding the Tarot's 'people' cards, the court cards.
Tarot queens as personal mentors
How to sort the courts part 1.1: People, roles, & perspective
To understand the court cards, we lean in to the oppressive social structures with which they were initially associated.
Helping or harming? Understanding the Knights in tarot
The knights can be relied on to go a tad OTT. Here's an approach to help you understand each of them.
Vulnerability, fear, and the Page of Cups
Brave enough to go where fear resides, committed with curiosity and love to the heart's long and often difficult journey.
Light & Shadow: Sorting the court cards part 1
Here Siobhan begins the project of taking the court cards out the closet, dusting off the stale old interpretations, and reinvigorating them via astrology & storytelling.
The present moment – Daughter of Swords
This woman grips her sword in her hands - grips the blade itself with her bare fingers. If a sword is wisdom, truth and experience, she is unafraid.
The Foundation Bones: The Herbal Wisdom of the Suit of Pentacles
[Guest post] "The suit of Pentacles asks us to seek out the green, abundant spaces in our life. If we lack such places, we must learn to grow them. If they have become overgrown, we must learn to find the sunlight again to nourish our roots."
What do you call your court cards?
Most of us are familiar with the Page, Knight, King and Queen cards in tarot This ‘royal family’ makes up what is traditionally known as the ‘court’ – and they are often seen as the trickiest cards to learn. They are the characters in tarot, often representing ourselves or the people in our lives. Many decks have …
Understanding the tarot court cards
I want to talk about the ‘people’ of the tarot. The pages, knights, kings and queens that make up the tarot’s ‘court’. These sixteen court cards are notoriously tricky to interpret, with beginners and seasoned readers alike often struggling to understand their meaning in tarot readings.
How to read court cards as couples
Everyone finds the court cards tricky, right? I know it’s not just me. I get asked regularly how I work with these cards and I know other tarotists do too. On a forum I belong to, experienced tarot readers often post questions and answers about how to learn and read these cards. Do they always …
Reading the tarot court cards like a soap opera
So, like many people, I struggle somewhat with the Tarot's court cards - the queens, kings, pages and knights. To help me get to know them a little better, I thought I'd brainstorm a little - mapping the cards to explore the relationships between ...
Page of Swords
Daily draw - 28th May 2011 The Page of Swords. Interesting card! I'm kinda in the middle of a mapping exercise to help me learn more about the personalities of the sixteen court cards, and thought I'd have a little moment with this character. Page...
A knight and a poem
Daily draw – 9th May 2011 Hawk Roosting I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.Inaction, no falsifying dreamBetween my hooked head and hooked feet:Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.The convenience of the high trees!The air’s buo...
Page of Pentacles – the time is now
Daily draw - 2nd May 2011 (Page of Pentacles, from the Shadowscaps Tarot by Stephanie Lau) Funny. Was just thinking how I'd not drawn any Pages yet in my daily draws. This Page is a fun one. She looks like she's offering me somthing; there's a bal...
A forest menagerie – the court of the Wildwood Tarot
I think my favourite thing about the Wildwood Tarot is the court cards. Like many people it seems, I've always struggled a bit with the courts...and it's hard to say why. I've had my favourites - like friends, I feel I know them inside out - but w...
King of Stones (Wildwood Tarot)
Daily draw - 27th April 2011 The King of Pentacles. Rich-man, leader, businessman, boss. Head gardener. Paterfamilias. I drew him yesterday from the Waite-Smith...and thought...meh. I looked at his lovely rich robes, the vines, the gold, the abund...
Queen of Pentacles – a practical awareness
Daily draw - 11th April 2011 I didn't draw this card at random...I chose it because I wanted to spend some time with it. It came up in a reading I did earlier, and I couldn't just clear it away afterwards. The image from the Shadowscapes deck is b...
Knight of Pentacles
Daily draw - 22nd March 2011 The Knight of Pentacles sits upon a heavy plough horse in the midst of the field of dreams. In his hands he carries a single gold coin, but his eyes reflect careful thought and consideration. The knight is engaged in t...