Gilded's Standing Queens

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 07 Jun 2005, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Emeraldgirl	07 Jun 2005
On the weekend while at the Tarot Cafe Mythos and i were looking through the Gilded Deck and we realised that the queens are all standing without a throne in sight. Also that there is one pillar in each of the queen cards. Does anyone know the significance of any other decks that have standing queens?

Sulis	08 Jun 2005
Hi Emeraldgirl, I don't have this deck so I can't help you but I thought you may like to know that there is a Gilded Tarot Study Group. http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=27174&highlight=gilded Maybe you should post there. Love Sulis xx edited to add - Oops, sorry, I see you have been posting there :)

MercyMe	08 Jun 2005
Robin Wood's Queen of Wands and Queen of Swords are standing, too. For the Q of W I think it portrays her high energy, her go-for-it-ness. For the Q of S It shows her almost beckoning to the wind, reaching out for...ideas, wisdom, knowledge, speaking the wind. Her dress is windblown and the butterflies on it seem like they are floating. The standing queens in the Gilded seem commanding to me. The Kings seem almost lethargic as they recline on their respective thrones. The queens appear more energetic, forward acting, even if they don't show movement...they're ready. I especially like the side view of the Queen of Cups with her stormy skies brewing behind her. She's off in her own world whereas the Queen of Wands confronts you directly with her frontal posture and straightforward gaze. Their postures seem to convey more active energy than the kings and more security in themselves as well. ~Mercy

feticeira	09 Jun 2005
I had no clue about the reason for this but MercyMe´s take makes sense to me. I had read somewhere that enerything the kings represented were those qualities put into action. The kings provided the greatness of ideas and resources, but only the queens could put them into being. Don´t know how true that might be, everyone has a different take, but if this interpretation is widely known maybe the standing queens in the gilded are refering to that. Also, the gilded has curious courts- there´s that thread here these days about the knights and the armour over their face, while in other decks you can see the faces.

shaveling	09 Jun 2005
The queens in the Swiss 1JJ are all standing too. That always distracts and puzzles me when I switch to that deck from my usual TdM. I understand Kaplan wrote a book to go with the 1JJ, but I don't have it, or even know how deck-specific it may be. Has anybody here read it? Does he talk about the standing queens? -shaveling

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