Minor Arcana
The table of correspondence below provides the ideas associated with each of the suits:
The numbers on the cards have a consistent meaning.
This meaning is then interpreted according to the context of the suit:
Court Cards
The Court cards can be defined in various ways.
a particular personality trait
an actual person who displays that personality trait
a stage of development in a person or situation
They may refer to stages of growth and development within our self and others.
This explains how the Court card, associated with a clearly female entity, can be identified as the "King".
Pages may be seen as conceptual entities at the very beginning of a life, a project or an event.
Knights are the next stage of development after conception.
They represent an active mind, keen to create and get on with life, the project or the event.
Queens represent the need to nurture and emotionally carry the ongoing development.
Kings are the fulfillment and embodiment of the life, project, or event.
The manifestation and the material body.
Apart from these stages of development
the Page may be a young female
the Knight may be a young male
the Queen may be an adult female
the King may be an adult male
Another way of looking at them is that:
the Page is an infant (male or female)
the Knight is an adolescent (male or female)
the Queen is an adult female
the King is an adult male
It is confusing but thinking of people in these various ways can help to understand them better.
It also helps to think of the masculine/feminine traits as a kind of energy.
Anybody, male or female, can have that energy.
Carl Jung in his psychology refers to the anima and animus.
Jung claims that within every female person there is an internal male aspect.
Within every male person there is an internal female aspect.
We are all made up of these two parts.
Our journey is striving to find a balance and harmony between these conflicting aspects or dualities.
When we achieve this state of balance and harmony, Jung calls this Individuation.
We are made up of passions, emotions, ways of thinking and bodily development.
These are all at different stages of development.
As we progress on the Soul's journey, we are seeking to mature all of these aspects.
To bring them together, as a mature human and a mature soul.
The chart below shows how the meaning of the suits are applied to the various Court cards.
To use the chart cross reference the column and the row.
For instance the Page of Pentacles relates to Concepts, may be an infant or a young female related to action/doing, manifestation and the earth.
The Court cards can be defined in various ways.
a particular personality trait
an actual person who displays that personality trait
a stage of development in a person or situation
They may refer to stages of growth and development within our self and others.
This explains how the Court card, associated with a clearly female entity, can be identified as the "King".
Pages may be seen as conceptual entities at the very beginning of a life, a project or an event.
Knights are the next stage of development after conception.
They represent an active mind, keen to create and get on with life, the project or the event.
Queens represent the need to nurture and emotionally carry the ongoing development.
Kings are the fulfillment and embodiment of the life, project, or event.
The manifestation and the material body.
Apart from these stages of development
the Page may be a young female
the Knight may be a young male
the Queen may be an adult female
the King may be an adult male
Another way of looking at them is that:
the Page is an infant (male or female)
the Knight is an adolescent (male or female)
the Queen is an adult female
the King is an adult male
It is confusing but thinking of people in these various ways can help to understand them better.
It also helps to think of the masculine/feminine traits as a kind of energy.
Anybody, male or female, can have that energy.
Carl Jung in his psychology refers to the anima and animus.
Jung claims that within every female person there is an internal male aspect.
Within every male person there is an internal female aspect.
We are all made up of these two parts.
Our journey is striving to find a balance and harmony between these conflicting aspects or dualities.
When we achieve this state of balance and harmony, Jung calls this Individuation.
We are made up of passions, emotions, ways of thinking and bodily development.
These are all at different stages of development.
As we progress on the Soul's journey, we are seeking to mature all of these aspects.
To bring them together, as a mature human and a mature soul.
The chart below shows how the meaning of the suits are applied to the various Court cards.
To use the chart cross reference the column and the row.
For instance the Page of Pentacles relates to Concepts, may be an infant or a young female related to action/doing, manifestation and the earth.
The following meanings derive from 'the Heart of the Tarot".
(Thomson, Mueller & Echols)
(Thomson, Mueller & Echols)