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BTP77: The Easiest Way to Interpret the Court Cards

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I of the biggest trip-ups in Tarot readings is knowing how to bargain with the courtroom cards. Is the court card a person? Who is it? Is it you or someone else? If it's not a person, what else tin it exist?

I cannot tell you how many people I talk to who are learning Tarot who say, "Brigit, I've got no thought with these court cards. Assistance me interpret them!"

Today, I want to share with yous 1 of the easiest means you can interpret the court cards in your Tarot readings. It's actually important to continue it elementary, and I'thou going to walk you through it, plus a few other tidbits along the way to help get in squeamish and comfy for you when you see a court card in your side by side Tarot reading.

In this episode, we'll cover:

Keeping information technology simple with the court cards
Asking better questions to get more articulate answers
Understanding the energy of reversed court cards
Getting to know your court cards on a deeper and more personal level

Additional Resources:

Free Workbook: 5 Simple Steps to Read with Confidence
Blog Post: The Easiest Way to Interpret the Court Cards

Podcast Transcript

Yous're listening to the Biddy Tarot Podcast, and this is Episode 77: The Easiest way to Translate the Court Cards.

Welcome to the Biddy Tarot Podcast, where yous'll larn how to connect more securely with your intuition and live an empowered and enlightened life with the Tarot cards equally your guide. Listen every bit Brigit and her guests share their very best tips and strategies to help you read Tarot with conviction. And at present here's your host, Brigit Esselmont.

The Easiest Mode to Interpret the Courtroom Cards

How-do-you-do, and welcome to the Biddy Tarot Podcast. Every bit e'er, information technology's my absolute pleasure to be talking Tarot with yous today. Do you know one of the biggest trip-ups in Tarot readings is knowing how to deal with the court cards? When you lot become it in a reading, and you think, "Holy moly! Is this court card a person? And if information technology'southward a person, is it me or is it someone else? If information technology'due south someone else, who practice I know who information technology is? And if it's not a person, what else can it be?" I cannot tell you how many people I talk to who are learning Tarot just say to me, "Brigit, I've got no idea with these court cards. Assistance me interpret them!"

I desire to share with yous today i of the easiest ways that you can interpret the court cards in your Tarot readings. Information technology's really about keeping it unproblematic – trust me. Information technology's really important to go along it uncomplicated. I'm going to walk you through one of the easiest ways to interpret the court cards, plus a few other piffling titbits forth the manner to help get in nice and comfy for you when you run across a court card in your next Tarot reading.

If nosotros are going to go on things super, super simple (and I strongly suggest that you do if you're at the beginning of learning how to read Tarot), then court cards are an aspect of your personality. Let me echo:

Court cards are an attribute of your personality.

We know that there are 16 courtroom cards in the Tarot deck, and what I believe is that each and every one of us has a little chip (or a lot) of each of the 16 courtroom cards within united states of america. What happens is at unlike times of our lives in different situations with different people in different interactions, we're going to be expressing different parts of our personality.

For instance, maybe when yous're with your kids and they're being fun and enjoyable, so maybe your Queen of Cups is coming out. Maybe then when your kids outset complaining and won't become to bed until ten o'clock at nighttime time, maybe your Queen of Swords reversed starts to come out. Maybe when you're with your hubby, Queen of Wands. Or even if you're with a long-time friend, someone that you've known for many, many years since your childhood, perchance you become a chip more playful and your Knight of Wands comes out. Who knows?

If nosotros encounter the court cards as personality, we see that we tin can express a court carte in different times and different scenarios.

It's not so much about "You are a Page of Wands." It's more than that y'all are expressing your Page of Wands personality in a detail situation. I hope that makes sense.

Now, the other affair I think people get quite hung upwardly on with the court cards is "Is information technology an actual person, and is it myself, or is it somebody else? If it's somebody else, so who on earth is information technology?" This is where things can start to get really complicated, really chop-chop.

To go on it simple, set the intention that every time y'all practise a Tarot reading, a courtroom card volition stand for you.

For instance, say you're asking "What practise I need to do to find my next job?" and you go the Page of Wands. Now, in your old way of reading cards, you might think, "Page of Wands? Is this me, or is it someone else? Is this someone who is going to get the chore? Is it the person that's going to interview me? Is it my future boss? What is this card?"

Now, in your new Tarot reading self, where you're keeping things uncomplicated, you know because you've set the intention that whatever court bill of fare shows upwards, it'due south going to be nigh y'all, and so you know that that Page of Wands is a office of your personality that y'all demand to express in order to find the adjacent job. Nice and elementary, right?

A court card volition represent y'all, unless the position of the court menu appears specifically states it'south someone else.

Of course, if you were doing, say, a Celtic cross and yous've got a court carte du jour in the external influences position, information technology'southward not going to be virtually y'all. It'southward going to be nearly somebody else. Let's say it was the Queen of Swords. Yous might think about "Who in my life right now is expressing themselves as the Queen of Swords?" It'due south not necessarily "Who is the Queen of Swords?" because I retrieve so you tin adventure getting caught up with "female in her 40's or 50'due south," things like that.

It's more almost "Who is expressing themselves as the Queen of Swords?" because they may not exist the Queen of Swords. They may just be interacting with you in that item way in that particular moment, but when they interact with someone else or fourth dimension passes, y'all showtime to find that she might be more like a Queen of Cups or Page of Pentacles. It tin always change.

Coming back to the betoken – "Is it me, or is it someone else?" Set the intention that it is you (or the person who is asking the question).

Now, as y'all become more confident and more experienced with your Tarot readings, then you don't have to stick to this rule.

I find when I'm doing a Tarot reading, most of the time when I see a court carte, I relate it to myself or whomever I'thousand reading for, but every at present and then my intuition might boot in and say, "I'm not certain it's me. I remember information technology might exist someone else or something else." I can be more than flexible, but that'south considering I'k feeling really comfortable and confident with the courtroom cards.

Y'all're going to feel like that presently – trust me. If you don't feel like that now, it'due south coming. Information technology really is. But for now, to help you get really confident, just stick to that dainty continue-it-uncomplicated rule, and care for a court card as a representation of you and the personality that you're expressing.

Now, you lot're probably starting to realise that it's important to brand certain that it'due south clear if it'south somebody else or you. I was talking earlier nearly the Celtic cross with a court card in the external influences existence somebody else; it's not you.

Ask good questions

You need to ask adept questions and use expert spreads to help you lot really decide when a court menu is yourself or somebody else.

For instance, if you ask "Should I movement in with my boyfriend or someone else?" and so you lot get a court carte du jour, you might be a little bit stumped because you don't know if it'due south you, if it'southward your fellow, or if it's somebody else, because the question that you've asked is kind of a little bit all over the shop. "Should I movement in with my boyfriend or someone else?'

Instead, what you need to do is plan alee a little scrap. Recollect near "If I enquire that question and I got a court card, what would I do? Freak out? OK, I'm not going to do that." What you might do instead is intermission downwardly that question into more specific questions, or include them as positions in the spread, and so it's clear virtually who the bill of fare relates to.

For that example, y'all might ask the question "What might I feel if I move in with my swain?" That's i card. "What might I experience if I motion in with myself or on my own?" In that location'southward another card. "What might I experience if I move in with someone else?" And some other card.

Now, as well discover that I have shifted the question from "Should I move in with…" to "What might I feel if…" The idea around that is that you can become an idea of "If I practise choose that path, this is what might happen," versus "Should I do it or shouldn't I do it?" Ultimately, you have the pick virtually whether you do it or you don't do it.

Let's say you asked "What might I experience if I move in with my boyfriend?" and yous get the Folio of Wands. Well, that Page of Wands will relate back to you, but information technology'south more like "What aspect of your personality will exist expressed or shown if you move in with your swain?" You run across how that works, right? So and so yous're not so much worrying most if the card if somebody else, only information technology's more near you and how you're relating in that situation.

The bang-up thing is if you're focusing in on yourself and how y'all're responding and behaving and acting, that's the fleck that you can do something most.

If yous ask the question "What'south my boyfriend going to be like to live with?" that'due south a mode to go a very specific answer. If you lot get the Knight of Wands, then you lot realise he's going to exist a lilliputian bit frisky. Things might be a flake heady at home. Ultimately, you can make a pick about that too. You can say "Do I desire to be living with a Knight of Wands personality?" Yes, or no? Possibly not. Peradventure yous're in a Queen of Pentacles moment, and you think "No, I just desire stability, and I don't need lots of excitement and spontaneity and friskiness. You can still brand decisions that way.

Think ahead about "What question tin can I ask that'south going to make it really articulate if it's myself or somebody else if I get a courtroom card?" This takes practice. Only effort information technology on for size. Try some different questioning techniques, and meet what happens.

We've talked about what court cards mean (personality), and we've talked about whether it's you lot or somebody else, and ultimately it's you lot, unless you're asking a question where it'due south clearly someone else. We've as well talked about asking good questions so that you lot're clear on who the card does chronicle to.

Now, what about reversed court cards?

You might be someone who says, "Reversed cards? No, give thanks you. Why are we even talking about it?" Simply there are many of you who exercise utilise reversed cards in your readings, and yous might be wondering, "What does a reversed court card mean?"

For me, the way that I see reversals is it'south an internalisation of free energy. It's energy that's expressed inwardly and not outwardly. The upright card is more about expressed energy outward.

In terms of a reversed court carte, it might mean that at that place's a individual aspect of yourself. There'southward role of your personality that you are keeping to yourself. Yous may not be expressing it outwardly.

Perchance you lot're asking most work, and you had the Queen of Pentacles and the reversed Page of Cups. You might present yourself as the boss lady with the Queen of Pentacles, but underneath it all you lot've got this Page of Cups that's wanting to be expressed, and that'due south that more artistic piece, or possibly even more emotional piece. But with it being in the reversed position, yous don't necessarily want it to be expressed in that environment. It can be a private part of your personality.

At present, the reversals can too exist a sign that yous're learning how to express this part of yourself. It's non fully developed only yet, and information technology'due south something that'south emerging within you, but you're not quite ready to put information technology out there. Maybe it'south the Knight of Pentacles reversed, and the Knight of Pentacles is oft virtually routine and staying to a structure and and then on, but with the reversal of information technology you might be with your training wheels on how to practice routine, and you might be resisting routine, even. The upright energy of the Knight of Pentacles isn't being fully expressed in your life at that point, but is something kind of whirring around in the groundwork.

Hither's another case. You might enquire, "What can I do to discover a new job?" and you lot turn up the Queen of Cups reversed. At that place are a couple of ways of looking at this card. Y'all might say the Queen of Cups is about emotions and feelings and communicating those feelings, but in the reversal information technology might exist about keeping emotions to yourself in finding a new job. It could fifty-fifty exist near self-care, using the energy of the Queen of Cups to serve yourself, instead of serving others. Or at that place might fifty-fifty be something around emotional alignment on an internal level.

As you're looking for a new job, you might want to exist checking in for your emotional alignment. Does this really fit your values and how you lot desire to feel in a job? Again, it's that private process that's going on. You may not be talking about information technology in your interviews maxim, "Oh, this job makes me feel so wonderful!" It might exist something that you lot're actually thinking about in individual in your ain quiet fourth dimension.

The last piece I want to talk almost here is how to get to know your courtroom cards.

I am such an advocate for going across the book meanings and borer into the real essence of the Tarot cards, and in that location's no better way of doing that than making this personal and intuitive connection with the Tarot cards.

When it comes to your court cards, make them personal.

I way of doing this is to have out all of the court cards from your deck, and remember of at least one person that you know that represents that card. You might have the Page of Pentacles and you retrieve, "Who practice I know that's like the Page of Pentacles?" Write that downwardly. Yous might also write down why you recall this person is similar the Page of Pentacles. Then do that for all 16 court cards, and yous'll start to go a really nice personal connection with those court cards.

Now, some other exercise that you can do is for each court carte ask yourself, "When am I this particular courtroom menu?" For example, "When am I the Folio of Wands?" Maybe it'south when I'm post-obit a new path, or I'grand expressing a new part of myself spiritually. You might even desire to relate a specific fourth dimension or life experience to that bill of fare. You might recollect nearly to "When was I the Folio of Wands? I recollect the Page of Wands was when I was get-go learning Tarot, and I was learning about my own spirituality and my own spiritual path. I was excited to open up and grow on that path." Maybe that's the time I recollect of when I was the Folio of Wands. Then yous might recollect, "When was I the Page of Pentacles? The commencement of my career, my first existent corporate job, walking into that office in my adapt and my little briefcase, and starting this new career and being all excited virtually it."

And then I might fast frontward and ask, "When was I the Queen of Wands?" It was just a few hours ago I was on a webinar with fifty of our community members live, and I was talking well-nigh feedback, and throughout that whole webinar I couldn't help but just be radiating as I was talking about how to bargain with client feedback. That's an case right in that location.

Think about it: When am I this court bill of fare, or when was I the courtroom card? You'll get-go to create that cute personal connection with the courts.

Quick epitomize:

Keep information technology simple with court cards. Treat the court cards every bit an aspect of your personality and as you (versus other people), unless information technology's in a specific position related to other people.
Enquire skilful questions so that it'southward nice and clear when you practice receive a court card what that means and who it'southward related to.
With the reversed courtroom cards, see them as private free energy or not fully expressed free energy.
Finally, get to know your courtroom cards on a deeper and more personal level.

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Awesome. I have really enjoyed talking with you well-nigh how to interpret the court cards easily and effortlessly, and now I hope that in your readings you'll find it a lot more enjoyable when you lot see a court card appear. I hope you take a neat week ahead, and I tin't wait to conversation with you again very, very shortly. Good day for now!