Cary-Yale Female Knights & Pages

[Angel81]

Okay forgive me if this has already been posted, I searched the forums and couldn't find what I was looking for.
As far as I know there isn't a companion book for the Cary-Yale deck, and I am very interested in knowing the meanings of the female knights and pages.
I have heard they aren't much different from their male counterparts, but I figure were separate for a reason. If anyone can point me in the right direction or where I could find the LWB online, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[Angel81]

If this is not the proper place to post this, could someone direct me to that place?

 

[Debra]

You're in the right place. I don't know, is the answer. But with luck someone will come along who does

 

[Rasa]

I don't know what it says in the LWB, but seeing as this deck predates little white books by a few hundred years, it seems to me it doesn't really matter much, and they should be read however you like.

 

[Bernice]

Hello Angel81, I don't know of any book that gives divinatory meanings for the Cary-Yale cards because there is no historical evidence to suggest that they were used for 'readings'. Any such book that might exist would probably have been written in the last century (1900s) or more recently (2000s).

As Rasa says, you can read these early decks however you see fit. However if you want to read them in accord with a historical perspective, have a look at the threads here,

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=31857

Post 8, "Reading with a Marseilles deck", contains several links with different approaches. As the cary-Yale is a Marseille style deck, you could adjust your interpretations for the female Knights & Pages.

If anyone else has developed a method for reading with these cards, do please post here


Bee

 

[kwaw]

I don't think there is a lwb for the Visconti Cary-Yale.

There is a long thread on the CY in the history thread that may be of interest here:

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=70236

There are several discussions there on the female knights and pages.

There is another thread that breaks off from that one here:

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=72528&highlight=cary-yale

Which may be indirectly of relevance to your question in that it discusses Plato's republic, in which the 'guardian' class has both men and woman, to be treated as equals. There were four translations of the republic made between 1400 and 1450, all of which with connections with the Visconti, highlighting the interest in this text at the court of Milan.