feynrir
The pattern goes: IHVH
IOD - Fire - Wands - Knights
and
HE - Water - Cups - Queens
come together for
VAU - Air - Swords - Princes
which transmutes into
second HE - Earth - Pentacles - Princesses
I believe the Princesses are referred to as both ending the suit process and beginning the new cycle, which is why they're particularly potent cards.
This is of course based on binary gender sexual reproduction. You have some decks such as Daughters of the Moon, a feminist deck, that completely replacs the usual 4 courts with 3 of Maiden, Mothr, Crone, and removes the Emperor and Hierophant cards, which it considers traditionally overtly masculine, absorbing their meanings into the Empress and Priestess cards, "returning the masculine powers" (book's words) to the respective goddesses, since male emerges from female in their perspective.
Thank you for the concise suit correspondences here! Nice, very helpful!
And weirdly I have been drawn to the Princesses of the Thoth deck from the start, so the significance of their position in each suit is very intriguing to me too.
The Daughters of the Moon ideas are pretty interesting, then. But I must say the Emperor is my favorite card so it's a damn shame they got rid of--er, absorbed it
Also, to nisaba: I see your point in that the Rider Waite Smith can be pretty masculine considering. It is very...straightforward! I see the Robin Wood as pretty masculine as well, driving home your point.