Barleywine
Yes, much more symbolic than narrative... but they incorporate a lot of directional movement, much more than the RWS for example.
Looking at the Marseille minors, I see more and more of this movement here as well. But it's mostly symmetrical and I'm not quite sure how this will work out for me. Especially regarding drives and blocks, which I guess will come from courts and majors mostly...
The movement in the TdM minors is subtle. I see more of it by overlaying the triangles (ternaries) and the squares and crosses (quaternaries) over the images, but I still get symmetry for the most part. I would look to Cirlot's "evolutive" and "involutive" triangles to show movement. Here is what I got for the Aces. It's a bit fanciful because I was trying to join all four Aces in a single image showing "flow" between them.
I'm always looking for directional movement, mostly by "facing" of the figures in a card. I've even gone so far as to say that images facing straight out of a card are looking "up" if the card is upright and "down" when reversed. But I'm still on the fence about using reversals with TdM (and leaning away from it).