THE COURT CARDS
The Court Cards have their own separate significances too:
JACKS: youthful, creative, charming, fun, romantic, and good talkers. But Jacks can also be immature, irresponsible, unreliable, untruthful, and downright crafty.
QUEENS: maternal, protective, strong management and organizational skills, can assume authority with ease, intuitive and attracts what she needs to her without having to demand it. Can have a strong creative/artistic streak, like the Jacks.
KINGS: managers, leaders, authoritative and disciplinary in nature, demands things instead of requesting them. Has an area of responsibility or a ‘kingdom’ of sorts.
Below is a crib sheet I devised for those who want to keep the list of meanings above with them as they start using the cards:
PlayingCardDivinationCribSheet
Now that I’ve done a run-down of the meanings of the various suits, the court cards and the numerological associations, attached is a separate PDF with a basic summation of my understanding of the meanings of each card; this column would be just too long otherwise. I will include a bibliography at the end of this lesson, for those who want to read in-depth on the subject. You may want to read a couple of sources, then come to your own determination of the cards’ meanings.
I have reasons to believe that Spade element is Fire and Club is Air.
I have seen that same attribution of element-ownership, Spades=Fire and Clubs=Air somewhere, but I can’t recall exactly where. Since Clubs seemed to me to be roughly-analogous to Wands in function (both get waved in the air), and Spades struck me as being roughly-analogous to Swords in function (both cut), the elements I assigned to both followed-on from that. But your correspondences make sense. Clubs and Swords are weapons (which are wielded in Air), and Spades and Wands are tools. Also, Clubs are associated with communications, which is a very ‘air’ thing. Richard Webster, in his book “Playing Card Divination for Beginners” says Spades=Fire and Clubs=Earth(!). I always thought Diamonds were Earth, since Diamonds are analogous to Pentacles/Coins. I’m going to have to do more research on this matter. Thank you for mentioning this!
Hi! Great information in this article & thank you for sharing.
Question, for Spades the Section of Medieval is missing. What is their medieval section?
Thanks!
Thank you for calling this to my attention! I overlooked that detail. It is now corrected.