Tarot Thrones | The Court Card Blog

Month: December 2016

  • Your Tarot Court Card for 2017

    Tarot Thrones | King of Pentacles | Druidcraft Tarot
    Happy 2017!

    Your Tarot Court Card Theme for 2017

    Just a bit of Tarot Court Card fun to kick us off into the New Year!
    Lots of tarot buzz on Social Media about THEMES for the year, as inspired by the Major Arcana card that your personal year correlates to.
    To find our what your personal year card is, take your day and month of birth and and add to 37 (ie 20+17, the incoming year).

    Here’s an example: mine!
       13
    +  8
      37
      58

    Since there is no Major Arcana card numbered 58 (hey, we’re not using Minchiates here, people!), these digits need to be further reduced by adding them together, giving us a total of 13.
    My theme for the year will be inspired by Death *pauses dramatically and sweeps cloak over shoulder*
    But since my blog focuses on the Court Cards, I thought we’d have a little fun and extend the exercise further:
    Instead of adding up your digits, above, until they total 22 or under (ie the number of Major Arcana cards we have), total them up until they are 17 or less.
    I numbered the Page of Pentacles, the lowliest of the lowly, as 1.  But your numbers will not reduce to one, so I’ve also accorded him 17 (because he’s also VERY special, as well as being the lowliest of the lowly).
    So, if you add up to 17, then you are having a Page of Pents year ๐Ÿ™‚
    Taking my example again, this means that my 13 – Death year – becomes further compounded by Court Card 13…. which is The King of Pentacles.  Hopefully, but doing a lot of judicious pruning and scything down of things that are no longer good for me, I will maybe start to become more productive and earn a bit more in the way of shekels.
    Have a try yourself and tell me who you end up with as your Court Card theme for the year!
    Page of Pents (1) or 17
    Page of Cups 2
    Page of Swords 3
    Page of Wands 4
    Knight of Pents 5
    Knight of Cups 6
    Knight of Swords 7
    Knight of Wands 8
    Queen of Pents 9
    Queen of Cups 10
    Queen of Swords 11
    Queen of Wands 12
    King of Pentacles 13
    King of Cups 14
    King of Swords 15

    King of Wands 16                                               โ†400 words

  • Top 10 Tarot Court Card blog posts | Tarot Thrones

    4 Musketeers | BBC | Tarot Knights
    Four chaps in leather.  You’re welcome.

    As the year draws to a shuddering ( and mostly welcome) end, I thought I’d close the year with a quick run down on the Top 10 most visited posts on my blog.

    So, here they are:

    10 – Slipping in at number 10 is a very tongue in cheek look at the four Musketeers from the recent BBC series and their relation to the Tarot’s Knights – ooh it’s all about the dashing chaps and believe me, they were very dashing indeed on the Beeb.  Not an excuse to put up pictures of handsome men in leather.  No, not at all.

    9 – Making his presence felt for the first time in the list of top posts here in Tarot Thrones is the Page of Swords.  This is a series that I do where I quiz a deck’s author or artist about their deck, their courts in particular and specifically the Page of Swords.  Here’s the equivalent card from the Lost Tarot of Nostradamus by John Matthews and Wil Kinghan.

    8 – Working out your court card theme for the coming year – the year in the blog post is 2015, but you can absolutely do this for every year.  In fact, I’ll pop the 2017 court card for me up here in a couple of days time ๐Ÿ™‚

    7 – The DruidCraft Tarot continues to delight us, long after it was published and here we meet the deck’s King and Queen of Cups, published by Connections.  Have you read it?

    6 – Holly Sierra’s Chrysalis Tarot is one of the most gorgeously coloured and illustrated decks that I own – here is Holly talking about her courts and the Page of Swords in particular.

    5 – The halfway point and our last look at a post dedicated to the Page of Swords.  Here it is Giordano Berti talking about Sola Busca Tarot’s Page of Swords.  How I love the Sola Busca … I actually met it in the, erm, flesh at the Brera in Milan. Oh yes, I do get about ๐Ÿ˜€

    4 – Now that we are in the top five, we come to a really lovely Marseille type tarot, the Ancient Italian Tarot by Lo Scarabeo – check out the Page with a booty like Beyoncรฉ ๐Ÿ˜€

    3 – Now we’re in the top three and this one was actually created over on my other blog, Hestia’s Larder, where I decided to live like Elizabeth Taylor for a week.  Never has so much eyeliner been used by one person … but it was a lot of fun.  I decided to record her marriages as a series of court card scenarios – hope that you enjoy them!

    2 – Almost at the top, but not quite, the expressive courts that are the King and Queen of Pentacles from the Druidcraft Tarot by Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm, artwork by the incomparable Will Worthington.

    1 – The most popular item on m’blog in 2016 was the Robin Wood Tarot review – resplendent with little video.  A gorgeous deck with delightful courts – give it some house room!


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  • Wizard’s Tarot | Rumi Quotes

    So, over on Facebook I try to do Interesting Things with court cards that help fellow readers become more confident with their court card work.

    My most recent week was spent in the company of The Wizards’ Tarot (Llewellyn) by Corrine Kenner which is a really pretty deck.  In fact, I must do a review of its courts for you one day soon.
    Anyhoo, I decided to pair up court cards with cards from the rest of the deck and match them up with some lovely quotes by Rumi.  The exercise for all of the cards is ‘Card A helps with Card B’:

    Here we have the King of Wands paired with the 8 of Cups:


    ‘Set yourself on fire and seek those who fan your flames’ – Rumi
    The Lovers paired with the Queen of Cups
    ‘Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray’.     Rumi

    8 of Pentacles paired with Queen of Pentacles

    ‘Everyone has been made for some particular work (8 Pents), and the desire for that work has been put in every heart (Queen Pents).โ€ โ€“ Rumi (well, not the bits in brackets!)

    7 of Cups paired with Knight of Pentacles
    There are many ways (7 Cups) to kneel and kiss the earth (Knight of Pentacles), just pick one of them and make a start! – Mostly Rumi ๏ฟผ<3

    If you like this kind of thing, I would love it if you could like @tarot.thrones over on the book of the face.

    If you’ve not encountered Rumi or The Wizards’ Tarot before, here are a couple of links.

    What do you think of the exercise – Card A helps with Card B? What do you think of the pairings – do they work?