Well, yes, sorry I did not express that, there is no consensus regarding the TdM or historical decks. There are some fairly decent systems or structures for these decks that are fairly recent, and they have been mentioned here in this thread, whether in derision or in all seriousness. They are not ancient and they may have some faults (like Waite, Crowley), but some of them are very well thought out systems that make sense when you are reading the cards. They should all be given some attention.
This is what I took as Leo's main query, but maybe I am going way off track.
No, you're not off track at all, although perhaps "Consensus" was not as accurate a word as, say, "Majority."
RWS and Thoth, generally speaking, seem to have majority agreement on what the cards mean. There are, of course, groups and individuals that use RWS/Thoth and apply their own meanings to the cards and the system still works for them.
I even do it myself. There's a card in RWS that I have assigned a particular meaning to that has nothing to do with the card itself. It just consistently kept popping up in a specific context in almost every reading and across all my decks. So eventually I started just assigning that meaning to it regardless of the majority agreed upon meaning.
I was just wondering if there was a majority belief on the TdM card meanings.
It does make sense, though, that it would be largely regional as well as personal.
As far as attempting to create a pre-occult significance where there wasn't one, as an earlier poster wrote, I don't see how that can be true. It's well-known that people used playing cards (and other things) for divination long before Golden Dawn/Court de Gebelin came along, and surely the TdM wasn't spared this use by some people. But I agree that their assigned meanings were likely specific to themselves. There was always an occult significance to cards, just less organized and widely known before GD.