Court cards

Court Cards and Subelements
The concept of the four elements is a cornerstone of esoteric study.

Court Cards: These represent people of different personalities and rank, who resemble certain aspects of the suit's sphere. Interpretation is taken from how one would think these archetype cards would react to the presented situation.

The court cards contain a number of important Masonic symbols. Nine are full face and three are profile.

The four Court Cards in Wands represent very fair people, with yellow or auburn hair, fair complexion and blue eyes. The Court Cards in Cups signify people with light brown or dull fair hair and grey or blue eyes.

Assigned to each minor arcana card is a time period shown at the bottom of the card. The court cards are drawn in the traditional double-ended style of playing cards, and the suits names are: Clubs, Hearts, Spades, Diamonds.

sphere of Stars (Fig. 2), or an allegorical figure such as the Anima Mundi (Fig. 3) or Grammar (Fig. 4). But the simplest explanation may simply be the addition of a human figure - after all, this is how the artist uses figures in the court cards - ...

See also: Tarot, The Tarot, Sword, Cups, Esoteric