gorgeousbutterfly
to understand? i find the symbolism easy to understand and remember. the court cards and the major arcana are another story alltogether though!! just me?!
I don't know if this helps Lillie and gorgeousbutterfly, but all I do with court cards is to consider that the represent someone I know, and how that person is affecting me currently (is there something I need to change there?) OR what I can learn from observing their way of being.Lillie said:I have always thought it was easy to understand the basic feel of them.
I hate it when people say they are 'unillustrated pips'. They are illustrated. Then 9 swords dripping blood, or them 7 cups with all the green stuff.
It's not a picture like in the RWS, but it speaks volumes.
I too have trouble with the courts.
But that's the same with any deck. I alway have trouble with the courts!
gollog said:hmm, maybe it is just me then who doesn't find them easy at all! Apart from a few of them, I find it very hard to get anything from them (I just started with these cards though and don't know anything about planets, kabalah and astrology). And the keywords don't seem to make a lot of sense to me either. Guess I have to give it another try.
Lillie said:Connecting people to the courts.
Yeah, other people have said that.
butthat's the problem.
I can't seem to see people as the courts!
Some days I look at my husband and wonder which he is.
and he's either loads of them or none of them.
I'm better with the women actually.
I know I am the queen of swords (though it took a long time to realise it, or perhaps it took a long time for my personality to settle at that!)
The kings and knights, though. I find them very hard.