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  • Hello again King of Coins!

    The moon has just hidden her light again and that’s the signal for me to pull another card for myself for the incoming energies from now until the full moon.

    And this particular slice of  divine Tarot gorgeousness comes, once again, from Kat Black’s Touchstone Tarot (see earlier cards here and here.  It’s the King of Coins. Again.

    This guy has been popping in and out of my life recently like a fiddler’s elbow!

    This King regards us with a steady gaze as he sits at table – his plate of oysters and glass of wine await his attentions.  But look at the toppled pitcher, you wouldn’t expect THAT at the King’s table.

    I wonder….what dining shenanigans we have just interrupted?!

    Kat says that this is a man who is enjoying the success that his affluence has brought. He’s no penny-pinching miser of a king – he’s a man who enjoys his luxuries in life.  Unlike our current crop of bankers, this is a rich man who is TRUSTWORTHY.  Prone to giving to worthy causes, he’s kind and approachable.

    The images that swirl together to make this composite King of Coins include Hans Holbein The Younger (for both face and body – from two different portraits).  And, most pleasingly to me, the feather in his hat is by Cecco de Caravaggio.

    I’ve just read Caravaggio by Andrew Graham-Dixon and Cecco was the dimple-faced youth who featured in many of Caravaggio’s paintings, including my absolute favourite ‘Amor Vincit Omnia’.  They may or may not have been lovers – but I like to think that somewhere, just out of sight – perhaps right behind the artist – are a couple of the King’s companions – happily squiffy and up to goodness knows WHAT – maybe sticking a couple of irreverent fingers up as rabbit ears behind the viewer’s head?  In fact, IS that King looking right at us or is he looking at someone just off to the viewer’s left?

    If only those companions had remembered to set the pitcher upright, we would have been none the wiser.

    This King indicates that it’s ok for me to enjoy myself a little.  Cut myself some slack and splash out on a few things that give me pleasure.  Maybe go out for dinner with some friends and not limit myself to a couple of polite glasses of vino….rewind to the good old pre-baby days!

    And maybe it’s time to bin-off the £9.99 skinny-leg jeans from The Factory Shop and splash out on something that isn’t worn through on the behind.  Although I blame this blog for wearing through the seat of my jeans.  And possibly facebook 😀

    What does the King of Pentacles bring to YOUR life?

  • OOTK | Part II | Hunt the (scary!) Lady!

    Kali: Do not go home to her
    with a burst pay-packet

    So, following on from the earlier post about the initial stage of the OOTK spread, we move on to the second procedure but remember, you need never move further through the spread than this section, if that’s what you’re comfortable with.

    Here I’ve used the Haindl Tarot, for the question:  So, what do I do next with my Tarot aspirations?

    For my significator card, I chose the Queen of Wands (because she is generally the character to whom I aspire!) and in the Haindl, she is the somewhat bum-clenchingly scary Kali. <- I usually pick the Queen of Wands for more, erm, WHOLESOME reasons 🙂

    Given that my question involves ‘work’ I would be expecting it on either the Fire pile or perhaps the Earth pile…. and lo! there she was right at the top of the Earth pile.


    Here are the four stacks:

    Looking at the photo, from left to right we have Mother of Wands, The Magician, Justice and the Daughter of Wands. If you click on the photo, it will enlarge.  I think.

    Hmmm – what do you think of that?

    Kali was right on the top of the bundle, but if you need to search for your Significator, don’t disturb the order of the cards as you edge through them.

    Once you locate your Significator, spread them out in a line or fan shape.  Run it onto two lines if you’re a bit short of space.  As I was.

    And now we count! My authority for counting is Crowley’s Book of Thoth:

    * Knights, Queens and Princes (Kings, Queens and Knights, depending on your deck) – count 4
    * Princesses (Pages) – count 7
    * Aces – count 11
    * Major Arcana – count 3 for Elemental Majors, count 9 for Planetary Majors, count 12 for Zodiac””
    * Minor Arcana – count the face value (ie 3 of Stones, count 3)

    When counting, include the card itself as your first count.

    And, basically, make up ‘a story’ <- direct quote from Crowley there!

    You stop counting once you have ended up back on a card that you have previously landed on.

    You may also count in the opposite direction, just to see which cards REALLY have relevance (cards that come up when counting both ways) and which cards are resolutely refusing to get involved (cards that you never alight on!)

    In some versions, you can even CHANGE the direction that you are counting on in mid-stream, depending on what way your Pages/Princesses are facing, if you fancy it – but I don’t recommend that or you just end up in the most awful guddle!  Or maybe that’s just me 🙂

    When creating your story, you can refer to the cards either side of the card that you land on, using elemental dignities or just straightfoward Tarot interps, to create meaning and structure.

    Here’s a little slideshow to show you how my cards turned out:

    I know.  Oliver Stone I am not 🙂
    I appreciate that it all goes a bit quickly, so here are the photos so that you can see the images a bit more clearly:
    9 Swords Cruely, flanked by 2 Wands Dominion and Hierophant

    5 Wands flanked by 8 Swords Interference and Ace of Wands

    8 Cups, flanked by Mother of Stones (QoP) and Father of Stones (KoP)

    The Hierophant, flanked by 9 Swords Cruelty and The Lovers

    “” Please sing out if you would like me to put up a list of which Trump is in each category.

  • Exercise | Tarot and Oracle Amplifier

    Trying a new meme for you here!  If I supply a question and a couple of cards, would you be prepared to have a bash at answering the question?

    I’m hoping that you’re nodding and not gently banging your head off the keyboard 🙂

    Here’s the first hypothetical question:  I have a difficult relationship with my step-son, what can I do to improve things between us?

    We’ve got the Page of Swords from Cilla Conway’s Intuitive Tarot and the Inspiration card from the Dreaming In Colour Oracle by Mindy Sommers.

    Here’s an earlier post that I wrote about using an Oracle deck as a way to amplify specific features of your Court Card.

    What would you say to a sitter, with this question, with these two cards?

    Don’t spend more than a couple of minutes on it – it’s just a bit of fun!

    Come up with an interpretation? Share it in the Comments section!

    Hoping Friday the 13th isn’t too rough for you!

  • OOTK | First Operation | Golden Dawn

    OOTK.

    I know.

    It sounds like something an orangutang might say if it happened to be the librarian at a University for Wizards* but in this case it stands for Opening Of The Key.  And it’s a Tarot spread.

    The whole OOTK shebang involves four stages, but today,  we are going to look at only the first part of the first stage, or First Operation.

    I could write pages on the background to this spread, rattling on about the great occult meanings imbued within it – the Princesses!  The Aces!

    But I like to keep things simple, so I’m providing only a tiny bit of background for you – but be aware there is more to know 🙂

    OOTK was designed by the Great and The Good of the Golden Dawn, it is an impressive set of four manoeuvres that perfectly suits that highly intellectualised GD approach to the Tarot.

    Today we’re just looking at the First Operation. Actually, just the first part of the First Operation.

    This can be used perfectly well as a stand-alone spread and one need never venture into the thigh-high swirling waters of the other three operations if you don’t want to.

    Anyway, let’s crack on!

    Using whichever manner you are comfortable with, select a significator for your client. Or let them select one.

    Allow the querent to shuffle the cards and formulate their question.

    All you are going to ask them to do is split the deck into four.

    First of all you ask them to half the deck – placing one half on the right of the area to which you will use for the spread and the other half towards the left.

    The red arrow shows the position of your two initial stacks

    Then half each portion again, again laying half immediately to the left of the portion from which it was cleaved.

    The blue arrows show the positions of the second stacks.

    The cards on the extreme right (the stack to which I am pointing) represent the Fire energies , then Water, then Air and the final stack on the extreme left represent the Earth.

    Now, you might be lucky and have all four piles roughly the same height.  More than likely you will have one pile substantially larger or smaller than the others.

    You might be able to hazard some thoughts about what the largest/smallest pile might mean?  You can include these musings in your reading, if you like.

    Turn each stack over and read according to the stack that it is in.

    To illustrate:  the 6 of Cups  in the Fire stack.  The Water of the Cups weakens the Fire of the stack.  This might indicate that one’s natural fiery energies (optimism, expansion, career) are being adversely affected by the watery Cups energy of the 6.  Perhaps the sitter is brooding on something from the past that is holding back their natural enthusiasm for a situation?

    Do the same for each of the four stacks and it will give you an overview of what the rest of the reading is about; paving the way for the subsequent Operations.  However, you can actually just stop there if you like!

    But since WE are concerned with the Court Cards and their role, here as significator, we’re going to plough on a tiny bit further……..

    Search through every pile – without disturbing the order of the cards – until you find the stack that the significator is in.

    At this point, the Golden Dawn advocate the following:

    If the Significator is NOT found in the correct stack then the reading is abandoned.  What they mean by ‘correct stack’ is that if the question is to do with the emotional problems of a relationship, you would hope to find the Significator in the second stack, the Water pile.  If it was to do with one’s health, one might expect to find it in the Earth pile……and so on,  but I don’t ascribe to that *shrug*.

    I’m in the Carry On Regardless Team 😀

    The reason for this is that it is not always clear to the sitter (and consequently to the reader) what the querent’s issue is REALLY about.  For example – maybe the sitter thinks that it is a problem about sex (for me, that would be the fire stack) but the issue may actually be entirely emotional, or health-related (ie either the Water or the Earth stacks).  So I’m all for continuing with the reading!

    So, you’ve found the stack with the Significator.  Let’s assume that you are going ahead with the reading – what next?

    ………..tune in next time to find out 😀

    *If you don’t read any novels by Terry Pratchett, then this reference is completely meaningless.  I apologise.  But urge you to read them.

  • Farewell Queen of Discs!

    I usually draw these cards based on the Dark Moon (incoming energies) and the Full Moon (outgoing energies) in the evening, once my son has gone to bed.

    But our term time routine is now upset and it will take us a week or so to create a Summer Holiday routine.  As such I’m blogging on an ad hoc basis (basically whenever I can get in front of a computer without a small boy hanging over my shoulder!).

    As you can see, the outgoing influences over the next couple of weeks until the Dark Moon is the regal Queen of Discs from the Intuitive Tarot by Cilla Conway.

    The motif that winds its way through the entire deck is the oval frame for each character, giving the appearance of looking at each figure through a lens.

    She is depicted, slightly aloof looking, in front of her home – comfortable rather than stately.  She is dressed in shades of green and gold (appropriate!) and holds a great shield of organic design in similar colours.  Loving that head-dress – very art deco!

    The suit of Discs or Pentacles is associated with Health, Wealth and Home and the Queen is the emotional heart of that set up.  So I’m a bit glum to see her energies retreating, for a little while at least.

    What could it mean?

    Will my son and I end up eating packets of biscuits for our evening meal?

    Will the house tumble into chaos while my other half works away out of the country (probably, it usually does – I’m a bit feral when it comes to house-keeping to be honest).

    Will my money be frittered away on books, bling and booze?!

    Will my clicking ankles continue to plague me, even if I stop jogging?

    So many questions!

    In Cilla’s deck, this Queen stands for the organised home-maker and astute business woman, but she may also bolster her fragility with material goodies – Ugg boots perhaps?  Cilla says, in the accompanying book: “A natural beautifier, she loves comfort and her home.   Often very beautiful *coughs* she is ambitious, confident and energetic.  She is highly skilled in practical situations, especially to do with home or business. She makes things happen.’

    She can also be, however, grasping, overly-ambitious, egotistical and wrapped up in her possessions.  Hmm – maybe the death of my Ugg boots are a sign*, right enough!

    How does the Queen of Discs manifest in your life right now?

    Queen of Discs image from Intuitive Tarot by Cilla Conway, published by St Martin’s Press

    Cilla also has a wonderful Oracle deck called Devas of Creation – check it out if you like working with abstract decks.

    *They’re not really dead.  But they sure don’t look as good as they did before they got soaked 🙁

  • Significator Card | Dame Fortune’s Wheel Tarot

    I’m always on the look-out for something interesting for you and this morning I discovered this: Dame Fortune’s Wheel Tarot by Paul Huson (published by Lo Scarabeo) actually has a Significator card!

    Of course, you may still select a Significator using whichever method you prefer, but what a time- and sanity-saver this card will be!
    The deck itself takes the medieval wood-cut style of the Marseilles but expands the colour-scheme and adds a semi-illustrated Minor Arcana to the mix (the pips are presented within a meaningful scene).  The suits themselves are Batons, Cups, Swords and Coins with each suit rendered in a particular palette and bordered in the same colour – making suit identification possible from the merest sliver of card.
    Anyone familiar with the Rider Waite Smith deck would be able to use this deck very easily, I think.
    In the Major Arcana, the card names are traditional – a Juggler and a Female Pope replace the Magician and the Hgh Priestess.  I also see that Strength transforms back into Fortitude and occupies the 11th Arcana place, while Justice slips into her traditional 8th position.
    I notice that Major Arcana card (Death XIII) is numbered but not titled!
    The Courts are sufficiently interesting that they warrant a little blog post of their own.  
    I was amazed to see that the deck had its own Significator – do you know any other decks that have this feature? Do tell!

  • Hello to the Queen of Swords

    I know that this post is a little late, but I didn’t want the Summer Solstice blog post and the Incoming influences card post to overlap too much, so I held the Incoming Influences card reading over until this week.

    I feel weird.  And sad.

    At the end of this week, my son will leave the innocent delights of Primary School behind him and set his face towards his secondary school education in August.   I should feel happy – we’re halfway through his formal education and we’re doing fine. Right?

    But I laid out his uniform for him this morning and waves of sadness washed over me as I hung up the little white shirt and tie.  ‘This is the last Monday that I’ll do this for him,’ I thought.

    I know.  I am totally working Queen of Cups reversed.

    He has mixed feelings about moving on too.  On one hand he is excited about the new challenge.  On the other, he is wary of being one of the Wee Ones again in a new school.  ‘We’re starting at the beginning again,’ he told me glumly as he straightened his tie.

    Yes, we are.  But it’s a whole new ball game.

    He’s growing his hair.

    His feet are nearly the same size as mine.

    He’s got the full eye-rolling, sotto voce cursing, audible sighing thing down to an art form.  And he’s not even 12 yet.

    Honestly? I miss the little boy that he was very much.  His small, hot hand readily snaking into mine to cross the road….. the guileless hugs and kisses.

    These days I’m too uncool to be seen with, so he walks a few steps ahead and I am only hugged and kissed when he wants to play with my ipad or seeking my agreement that he can play the Playstation for a while with his friends.

    The truth is that I feel increasingly redundant in his life.  I used to be his sun and now I’m just some cold little moon whizzing round Pluto, right on the edge of his universe.

    I wish that there was some way of helping parents cope with these strange feelings – the sense of loss, of time passing too quickly….. that we cannot keep him safe for ever.

    But it is also tempered with pride – he is turning into a lovely young man, he has a kind heart, he has friends, he should do ok academically…… unless he is beset by his hormones and side-tracked by girls and tempted by all manner of other stuff that he should Bloody Well Stay Away From.

    Was I surprised then, that the incoming card for this period was the Rider Waite Smith’s Queen of Swords?

    Not at all.

    I am going to depend upon her no nonsense energies to ensure that my sad thoughts are kicked into line and that I am less emotional about all this stuff.  She sets her face towards the future, her sword bolt upright and ready to cut out any overly-maudlin nonsense.  Her hand is raised to welcome the next phase.

    She tells me that while it’s ok for me to honour my feelings, it’s also good for me to recognise that they are not FACT and that I can change them. And indeed I MUST change them to make sure that Sonshine’s last week at school is memorable for all the right reasons.

    Wish her luck.  She’s going to need it!

  • Celebrate your Solstice!

    Welcome to This Game of Thrones, my blog about the Court Cards of the Tarot.  Chances are you have alighted here as a stop on the Tarot Blog Hop from either Donna Faber’s blog or Priestess Tarot’s blog.  Heck, perhaps you wafted in here from Twitter or Facebook links and haven’t a clue what the Tarot Blog Hop might be!

    The Tarot Blog hop is where a whole load of Tarotists (what is the collective name for a bunch of Tarotists anyway? a Fool of Tarotists? A World of Tarotists?!) blog on the same topic, relating it to Tarot or Oracles in whichever way the Muse moves them.  We all post at the same time (that’s the theory and the challenge lol!) and link together like a daisy chain. Today our subject is: Celebrate The Sunrise.

    Today, the Summer Solstice, is the longest day, and along with the Winter Solstice, these two tend to be the dawns that we consider significant amongst the other 363.  But surely EVERY dawn is worth celebrating?

    ‘Every day you waken up, you’re winning’ is a quote, from goodness knows where, which I hold very dear.

    So, my question today was, how can we best celebrate our sunrise, not just today, but every day?

    I selected a court card at random from the Gaian Tarot by Joanna Powell Colbert.  The card drawn was the charming Child of Earth. Standing in his verdant green woolly sweater beneath a great apple tree, the little fella is completely engrossed in the scarlet apple in his hands. 

    In this deck, the Child cards (equating to the traditional Page) all ask us to approach life with ‘Beginner’s Mind’.

    I like that, for me there is no better way to look at a sunrise as an opportunity to start afresh; for us to look at life with new and curious eyes. We can choose to drop our baggage of experience and refuse to let our previous encounters taint our enjoyment of the new day.

    And of course this works on other levels.

    We all have our own particular sunrises, those things that light up our lives with hope.  The could be our families, our faith, our career, our hobbies – the thing that makes your life worthwhile!  The Child looks at that apple as if he’s never seen it before, appreciating it for the miracle that it is.  And he urges us to do the same.

    Be honest, we tend not to do that.  Just think – I wrote this on a little box in Scotland and you are reading it on your own box somewhere else in the world.  We are linked together by cables, plugs and, frankly, magic!  We have SO much magic in our lives that we no longer see because we have grown complacent to it and accept it as ‘normal’.  We can fly like birds to every part of the world! We can switch on a box in the corner of the room and watch a football match being played live on another continent (obviously there is WAY too much Euro 2012 footie on the telly!)! We eat fresh vegetables from distant counties (and countries!)…. our lives are filled with the most amazing and wondrous things.  And we tend not to bother about them 🙂

    One of the things that lights up my life is my recently-found pleasure in learning to playing the keyboard.  Beethoven I’m not, but I really enjoy plinking away at Killing Me Softly or Danny Boy.  Mind you, I’m not sure whether my family enjoys it QUITE as much as me.  The Child of Earth prompts me to appreciate how far I’ve come, how much fun I have with it, and to take delight in the noise that I make!

    The Child card urges us to keep that personal sunrise fresh, unjaded, curious and fun. Approach your own sunrise as a miracle for your day, just as the sun rising over the horizon is a miracle to ALL our days!

    The Child’s companion animal, the rabbit, is often found at dawn and dusk ‘when it is easiest to slip between this world and the Otherworld,’ Joanna reminds us. 

    Most of the time we don’t give much thought to sunrise or sunset – we sleep through the former and the latter passes in a blur of TV shows. But dawn and dusk are very special times of the day, thresholds between this world and the Otherworld, as Joanna says.  We should honour them all, don’t you think?

    As far as our own personal sunrises are concerned, when you are doing something that you love, you tend to zone out or enter Flow – isn’t that a perfect way to experience the Otherworld?

    Through the Child of Earth, we can celebrate our sunrise (in whichever form we recognise it) by allowing ourselves to be delighted and amazed by its existence in our lives.  On a daily basis we can give thanks for all those things that light up our day.

    Can we look at an apple and see it for the first time?

    I hope that you have enjoyed your time here on This Game of Thrones and maybe you’ll come back and visit me again.  You might like to sign up for my Court Card newsletter so that we can keep in touch? 

    Next stop on the tarot blog hop trail…..

    Feel free to hop backwards though the list to the lovely Louise at Priestess Tarot too!


    http://www.priestesstarot.co.uk/tarot-blog-hop-litha
    And if any of the links are broken, please visit the Blog-Wrangler’s master list!
    http://innerwhisperscouk.blogspot.co.uk/p/litha-blog-hop-master-list.html

  • Away with the Birdies!

    Today I thought I’d introduce you to the Court Cards of the Secret Language of Birds Tarot by Adele Nozedar and Linda Sutton (artist).

    Before we talk about the Courts in this deck, you will see that this suit, Cups, is entitled Coppe. Adele pays tribute to the Italian 15th century origins of the Tarot (as we currently understand them!) and each suit and Major is named in Italian, but fret not, the accompanying book has it all in English too.

    Each suit is allocated a bird; for the Cups it is the Kingfisher, as you can see.

    The Court structure has been re-imagined by Nozedar and we see the Page/Princess role now taken by the Queen and the Knight/Prince role is now filled by The King.  I can see your eyelid starting to twitch – is that confusing the hell out of you, dear Thothites? 🙂

    The two high profile roles that had belonged to the King and Queen have now been transferred to the God and Goddess of the suit.

    The reason for the inclusion of a God and Goddess is that birds have always had associations with the divine because they can fly right up there to the highest heavens and commune with the Gods themselves.  They have also been associated with Divine messsages and interaction with us in mythology (eg Leda and the swan) and also in biblical stories – the Dove and the Raven in the Noah’s Ark story for example.

    By adding the God and Goddess elements, Adele reminds us of those divine links between the birds and us and the birds and the Gods, and us and the Gods.

    Adele and Linda have sneaked in the occasional famous face too – and here you can clearly see the young Elizabeth Taylor….and I’m pretty sure that I should know that other dude next to her – Is he Dylan Thomas? That’s who provides the quote that opens the section on the King of Cups, so that’s who I’m plumping for! *complete philistine face*

    To marry bird augury,  one of the most ancient forms of divination, with Tarot (the most popular!) is, I think, inspired!  In the accompanying book, Adele gives many interesting details of the mythology of the birds and how it’s an appropriate symbol for each card.

    The Kingfisher symbol transforms into the Feng Huang – the Chinese equivalent of the Phoenix as it enters the realms of the gods.  This transformation also takes place as the bird rises towards the Gods in the other suits too.

    And you will see that the Court structure doesn’t end with the God, but the Goddess! I like the idea of concluding the Courts with a Goddess and not a God – keeps it fresh!  *high fives anyone passing* 

    So – what do you think of Adele and Linda’s Coppe Court Cards? As ever, I’d love to hear your comments!

    Published by Schiffer. Words Adele Nozedar. Art Linda Sutton

    You can find our more about Adele’s work here and Linda’s work here

  • But what do you MEAN?!

    The Queen of Swords from
    Marie White’s Mary-El Tarot
    Published by Schiffer

    I once did a Tarot reading for a newly-engaged lady and in her Celtic Cross spread, there were NINE court cards.

    NINE!!!

    Once I had dragged myself up off the floor and wiped the tears from my panic-stricken eyes, I set about giving the reading, my voice thin and reedy with stress.

    ‘Are you finding a LOT of people trying to tell you how to organise the wedding?’ I asked gingerly.

    She nodded.

    …and so, dear Reader, we come to the first meaning of a Court Card when it pops up in a reading – the energies of people who are somehow involved in the scenario in question.

    It wasn’t too long into the reading until we had ascertained the other two traditional meanings of the Court Cards

    a) the energies of the sitter herself and
    b) the energies of the court card around the situation generally.

    The majority of the Court Cards that arose were Wands and Swords and I asked whether the input from a lot of people was getting on her nerves – albeit well-intentioned. 

    Yes, she replied.  Especially from the groom’s mother.

    She pointed to the Queen of Swords (I was using the Rider Waite Smith for this reading). ‘What is it about that card that makes you think she represents your future mother-in-law’?’

    The bride-to-be shrugged, reluctant to say anything.

    ‘I promise not to tell Evan,’ I said seriously, holding my hand up in an approximation of a court room oath.  And then she was off like a hare out of the traps…..there was almost no sin that this poor woman was not guilty of….from wanting her grandchildren at the wedding, to disputing the flower choices, the vegetarian menu choices and butting in on just who was sitting at what table.

    The thing is, I *knew* her future mother-in-law and although she was quite a powerful woman, she was not the shrewish manipulator that the bride was painting her out to be.  Indeed, the future mother-in-law had been upset and hurt by the bride’s reluctance to even sit still and listen to any ideas that she had for her son’s Big Day.

    ….and that brings me to the final point that I wanted to make about the Court Cards when they tip up in a reading.  The Court may just be a projection of how the querent sees someone’s energies, not how they actually ARE.

    When I pointed out the positive qualities of the Queen of Swords – her social adeptness, her dislike of spin and bullshit, her unflinching honesty – the bride reluctantly agreed that they WERE qualities that could prove useful when planning a wedding.

    We talked about this and the bride accepted that HER attitude to her family’s well-meaning input was spoiling the whole big run up to the day.  And, tadaaaah! – the wedding was a great success!

    So, to recap, in a reading, Court cards can mean one or more of three things:

    The energies of the sitter
    The energies of someone involved in the sitter’s scenario
    The energies generally around the scenario

    But perhapsthre is also a fourth interpretation….. the sitter projecting her own thoughts and fears onto other people and turning them into the Court Card.

    What do you think yourself? I’d love to know if you have alternative ways to interpret the Courts.