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  • 2020 Tarot Court Card | Attention to Detail Required

    2020 Tarot Court Card | Attention to Detail Required

    This guy. THIS GUY!

    If you have worked out your Court Card for 2020, you will hopefully be factoring in their guidance for the coming year.

    I like to look at them as attitudes that can affect your every interaction – if you let them. (See tomorrow’s blog post!)

    I patiently worked out that my 2020 companion in arms would be Court Card No 7 and promptly checked my ready reckoner of court card number allocations and tooted to all and sundry that my main man for 2020 was going to be the Knight of Wands.

    Knight of Wands Alexander Daniloff
    Not, in fact, THIS GUY.

    Reader, I got myself a THEME TUNE, some words to live by and was very much looking forward to roaring into 2020 with my fiery companion.

    Except I was wrong. Head-the-desk-stoopid wrong.

    My companion is, as was gently pointed out to me by a much more reasonable head than my own on instagram, the Knight of Swords. For it is HE who is No 7.

    I double-checked. Which is crazy because I quadruple-checked the first time. And yet I’d still read the information wrongly.

    Far too much hash-bash-let-me-at-em Knight of Wands energy and not enough cerebral Swords energy.

    And YET, now that I see him, he is indeed the perfect energy that I will need for 2020. Heck, even this morning I shared info about Northumberland Humane Society thinking that it was Northumberland in the UK, when it was actually Northumberland in CANADA.

    Yeah, Swords energy is going to be very, very important this year.

    So, my dear friends, for all of you who have ended up confused AF as to how Court Card 7 can be the Knight of Wands when the eyes in your head are showing you that Court Card 7 is the Knight of Swords …. I am truly sorry. Also – I like to keep you on your toes 😀

    Proof, if proof were needed, that I don’t so much as have feet of clay, as boots of concrete when it comes to Tarot Court cards.

    On the upside, it shows that it works – I’m in much more need of the Knight of Swords than the Knight of Wands – witness the cock-ups that I am making a scant 3 days into the year.

    And with that, I shall now edit my own 2020 info in the other posts to make better sense.

    Apologies!

  • Full Moon | Gemini | Knight of Swords

    The sun has swung into Sagittarius, so the silverly light of December’s full moon falls on the glinting armoured outline of the Knight of Swords, Gemini.

    I haz serious hat envy for this Knight of Swords.

    That’s peacock feathers by my reckoning and just the thing to be seen in around town this Christmas.  Also, you won’t need an umbrella with a hat brim that wide.

    One high wind, however, and you will end up in the next county…

    This golden-haired beauty is actually the Knight of Swords from the Visconti Tarot (Lo Scarabeo).

    I see that our Knight is breaking the first rule of superherodom – no capes.

    I would humbly suggest that the first rule of Knighthood should be ‘no peacock feathered picture hats’. It’s not a look that will strike fear into the heart of your opponent, bro.  Unless your opponent is wearing a fascinator.

    Would he look better in this?

    But other than the suggestion of a fancy hat and a cape for Christmas attire, what IS the Knight of Swords bringing to the table this fine full moon?

    As someone who is dominated by the element of Air, the Knight of Swords is very much a head-dweller and values the intellect over everything else.  Whatever story his head is telling him will be his truth – even if that’s at odds with his actual experiences. Neither is he entirely comfortable trusting his emotions either, preferring to go with his head over his heart any day.

    A Knight of Swords person has a lot of wind about them.  And I don’t mean ‘too many beans’ either.  They will be blustery, blowy and capricious.  Possessed of a rapier wit, he loves the ol’ verbal spar and parry.

    He (or she – the sex of the knight is neither here nor there)  makes a marvellous student – especially of mentally taxing subjects.  I can imagine him leading the university debating team and thinking deeply about such weighty issues as Ethics and Morality; working out what he believes, trying to scale his own mental Everest and work out what he stands for.

    A chat with a Knight of Swords will be fast and intelligent. You will need to be mentally agile to keep up with her train of thought, because it rattles along like an intercity express!

    On the downside, the Knight’s mercurial nature means that his point of view changes (depending on what else he has learned) and therefore isn’t the most reliable of opinions to lean on.

    But he’s fabulous if you need picture hats and capes….

    So, while the Full Moon is in the Knight of Swords:

    * Be prepared to challenge what you believe in.
    * Forgive people for changing their minds!
    * Get a cape and a hat for the coming season 🙂