Court Cards Flashcards
Knights
Represent the Yodh. Represents the most sublime, original, active part of the Energy of the Element. Their action is swift and violent but transient.
Queens
Represent the Hé. They recieve, ferment, and transmit the Energy of the Knights.
Princes
Represents the Vau. Son of the Queen by the Knight he represents the active issue of their union, and its manifestation. He represents the intellectual image of their union.
Princess
Represent the final Hé. They represent the ultimate issue of the original Energy in it’s completion, its crystallization, its materialization. Also the counter-balancing, the re-absortion of the Energy.
Knight of Wands
Represents the fiery part of Fire.
Activity, generosity, fierceness, impetuosity, pride, impulsiveness, swiftness in unpredictable actions.
If wrongly energized evil-minded, cruel, bigoted and brutal.
Queen of Wands
Watery part of Fire, its fluidity and colour.
Her characteristics “are” adaptability, persistent energy, calm which she knows how to use to enhance her attractiveness. She “is” kindly and generous but impatient of opposition. Immense capacity for friendship and love, on her own initiative
If wrongly energized has a tendency to brood, come to a wrong decision and react with great savagery. Easily deceived and then stupid, obstinate, tyrannical. Quick to take offence and harbour revenge. She might snap at her best friends without excuses.
Prince of Wands
Airy part of Fire. Its faculty of expanding and volatilising.
Swiftness and strenght. Inclined to act on impulse, sometimes easily led by external influences; sometimes prey to indecision. Often violent, especially in the expression of an opinion, but does not necessarily hold it. Very slow to make up his mind on a subject. “Always” sees both sides. Omnivorous sense of humor. Pride. Fanatically strong courage.
When badly dignified characteristics above found in anthitesis. Cruel, lazy, indifferent, intolerant, prejudiced and idle. Also empty boaster and coward
Princess of Wands
Earthy part of Fire. The “fuel” of Fire.
Brilliant and daring. She creates her own beauty b vigour and energy. In anger or love sudden, violent, and implacable. Ambitious and aspiring, full of enthusiasm ofter irrational. She “never” forgets an injury. Has patience only to ambush and avenge.
Ill-dignified defects of these qualities superficial and theatrical, shallow and false, yet without suspecting to have these quality. She believes enterily in herself. Cruel, unreliable, faithless and domineering.
