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Have any of you read "The Four Agreements"? After I read it, I started seeing the domestication process played out in the court cards.
The pages as unaffected by the belief system. Negatively a bit self absorbed sometimes, but in tune with their needs, not full of shame, and not interested in telling others what to do.
I see the knights as zealots for a belief system. Totally unaware of any negatives of the system and thinking everyone should convert. Expecting perfection to the system by others but especially for themselves. They are their own worst enemy, setting impossible standards for themselves.
Queens are fully submitted to the system, but understand the negatives. They are afraid to break free. They mistake the feeling in the pit of their stomach as something that should be heeded and feel guilty if they try to break free. They don't know the feeling is just fear with no negative connotation, just fear. Despite seeing the flaws in the system, guilt holds them in it, as well as realistic fears of disaster from rocking the boat.
Kings think they are above the system. They have a sense of entitlement and concern for what others are doing that is absent from the page. Sometimes they are leaving behind one belief system to just take on another. Sometimes they expect others to conform to a belief system that they don't hold themselves to.
Sometimes I slap a 4 agreements card on each court card, for clarification. The cards all expand on the following "agreements".
Be impeccable with your word
Don't take anything personally
Don't make assumptions
Always do your best
In my readings for myself, and others, I only focus on the sitter and self responsibility. No other person can be named or identified other than sometimes as infant. EVERYTHING is about the sitter or a general or recurring environment issue. The court cards threw me for a loop because their main meanings are to identify others, and there are no others in my readings.
I'm still experimenting with this court system, but so far it's working great and loved by all but one sitter. I'm hesitant to permanently adopt a system that is so contradictory of the traditional queen meanings, but I honestly think they match the pictures better.
Oh...and I use the suit to identify the type of beliefs. Pentacles beliefs about money and things of value and the body. Cups beliefs about emotions, love, dependencies ect.
The belief systems can be those of larger society, or the nuclear family, or religion or a corporation or any belief system affecting the sitter.
Are there any flaws in this system? Any warnings I should heed? Any expanding ideas? All opinions are welcome
The pages as unaffected by the belief system. Negatively a bit self absorbed sometimes, but in tune with their needs, not full of shame, and not interested in telling others what to do.
I see the knights as zealots for a belief system. Totally unaware of any negatives of the system and thinking everyone should convert. Expecting perfection to the system by others but especially for themselves. They are their own worst enemy, setting impossible standards for themselves.
Queens are fully submitted to the system, but understand the negatives. They are afraid to break free. They mistake the feeling in the pit of their stomach as something that should be heeded and feel guilty if they try to break free. They don't know the feeling is just fear with no negative connotation, just fear. Despite seeing the flaws in the system, guilt holds them in it, as well as realistic fears of disaster from rocking the boat.
Kings think they are above the system. They have a sense of entitlement and concern for what others are doing that is absent from the page. Sometimes they are leaving behind one belief system to just take on another. Sometimes they expect others to conform to a belief system that they don't hold themselves to.
Sometimes I slap a 4 agreements card on each court card, for clarification. The cards all expand on the following "agreements".
Be impeccable with your word
Don't take anything personally
Don't make assumptions
Always do your best
In my readings for myself, and others, I only focus on the sitter and self responsibility. No other person can be named or identified other than sometimes as infant. EVERYTHING is about the sitter or a general or recurring environment issue. The court cards threw me for a loop because their main meanings are to identify others, and there are no others in my readings.
I'm still experimenting with this court system, but so far it's working great and loved by all but one sitter. I'm hesitant to permanently adopt a system that is so contradictory of the traditional queen meanings, but I honestly think they match the pictures better.
Oh...and I use the suit to identify the type of beliefs. Pentacles beliefs about money and things of value and the body. Cups beliefs about emotions, love, dependencies ect.
The belief systems can be those of larger society, or the nuclear family, or religion or a corporation or any belief system affecting the sitter.
Are there any flaws in this system? Any warnings I should heed? Any expanding ideas? All opinions are welcome
