rachelcat
Hi, all!
A year and a half later, and here I go again! I tinkered with and changed my MBTI courts, so I thought I would re-share.
(I think to follow my meandering below, you need to look at the attached table early and often!)
I’m still using the two letter active/receptive system, but I basically turned the table on its side: Now Functions are suits/elements, and Attitudes are ranks. So what was Wands became Kings; what was Coins became Princesses, etc., and vice versa.
I think this works better with both the type descriptions in Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type by Isabel Briggs Myers and the keywords in a booklet I got at work, MBTI Introduction Workbook by Hile Rutledge, Otto Kroeger Associates. You be the judge! The keywords in the attached table are mostly from the booklet, with some changes and additions.
After reading Gifts Differing, I understand why people are tempted to use the four Functions for the four suits/elements. (Or if they read the underlying theory by Jung, which I didn’t!) But I think it’s an impossible job. Of Sensing, iNtuitive, Thinking, or Feeling, which one is Wands/Fire? Some have said intuitive, some have said feeling. I don’t think any of them work.
In my two letter system, the two active functions, Sensing and Thinking, combine to make the Fire suit. And, of course, all the other suits are two functions as well, based on a combination of active and receptive.
And the ranks are determined by combinations of active and receptive Attitudes.
Note that the table is ordered Fire, Earth, Air, Water. This is to try to show the flow from most active (King of Wands, fire of fire) on the top left to most receptive (Queen of Cups, water of water) on the bottom right. (It also happens to be the astrological order of the elements.)
I also came up with rank names that remove the developmental and gender aspects of the courts. After all, anyone of any age or gender can be any of the types, so Pages, Queens, etc. don’t quite make sense.
Kings = Directors
Queens = Accepters
Knights = Deciders
Pages = Explorers
(They’re a little clunky, but I tried to make them as generic as they need to be!)
So take a look and let me know what you think! (Now I just have to come up with a whole deck concept that will contain these crazy court cards!)
A year and a half later, and here I go again! I tinkered with and changed my MBTI courts, so I thought I would re-share.
(I think to follow my meandering below, you need to look at the attached table early and often!)
I’m still using the two letter active/receptive system, but I basically turned the table on its side: Now Functions are suits/elements, and Attitudes are ranks. So what was Wands became Kings; what was Coins became Princesses, etc., and vice versa.
I think this works better with both the type descriptions in Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type by Isabel Briggs Myers and the keywords in a booklet I got at work, MBTI Introduction Workbook by Hile Rutledge, Otto Kroeger Associates. You be the judge! The keywords in the attached table are mostly from the booklet, with some changes and additions.
After reading Gifts Differing, I understand why people are tempted to use the four Functions for the four suits/elements. (Or if they read the underlying theory by Jung, which I didn’t!) But I think it’s an impossible job. Of Sensing, iNtuitive, Thinking, or Feeling, which one is Wands/Fire? Some have said intuitive, some have said feeling. I don’t think any of them work.
In my two letter system, the two active functions, Sensing and Thinking, combine to make the Fire suit. And, of course, all the other suits are two functions as well, based on a combination of active and receptive.
And the ranks are determined by combinations of active and receptive Attitudes.
Note that the table is ordered Fire, Earth, Air, Water. This is to try to show the flow from most active (King of Wands, fire of fire) on the top left to most receptive (Queen of Cups, water of water) on the bottom right. (It also happens to be the astrological order of the elements.)
I also came up with rank names that remove the developmental and gender aspects of the courts. After all, anyone of any age or gender can be any of the types, so Pages, Queens, etc. don’t quite make sense.
Kings = Directors
Queens = Accepters
Knights = Deciders
Pages = Explorers
(They’re a little clunky, but I tried to make them as generic as they need to be!)
So take a look and let me know what you think! (Now I just have to come up with a whole deck concept that will contain these crazy court cards!)