Court Cards, Sensuality and Sexuality

BLFO

I want to have a consensus about court cards concerning sex and sensualism. I am taking notes as to explore ideas and concepts for romantic relationship readings.

Here are my thoughts on the suits in general, while not being concerned by the court characters yet.

1. Wands

Sensuality: They like to feel warm and fuzzy inside. They love body contact with others like hugging, snuggling, cuddling and holding hands. They do lots of warm baths and hot showers. Love to be in beds with lots of sheets and blankets. Flannel pajamas or nightgowns and nice fuzzy cotton socks. Terry cloth bathrobes and slippers (houseshoes). Warm milk, hot chocolate, warm sake, hot tea and coffee. Eat lots of soups and stews. They love fabrics such as cotton, flannel, terry cloth, heavy knits. Their wall colors or textiles might be warm, such was reds, yellows, and oranges. Artwork of erotica and religious art...think Madonna. She was a "whore" that wore a cross/crucifix necklace during the late 80s.

Sexuality: Passion without reason. They are more prone to have sex with strangers that they find attractive...one night stands. They can fall in love easily, regardless if the person is good for them or not. They like quickie sex. They may tend to forget to use birth control or safe sex while in the heat of passion. Might have a Madonna-whore complex, because Wands is religious...that means that sex could be a guilty pleasure. So they might engage in threesomes, orgies and fetishes. They are more sexual than sensual. They can care less about romance. Sex is top priority on their list. Orgasm has more importance than love. They are Playboys. They rather sow their wild oates than to be married or in a committed relationship. Sex is just a fun activity. Can be sexually selfish. They are attracted to people who dress ultra-sexy.


2. Cups

Sensuality: They like coolness. Love being near or in water. Skinny dippers (get into a pool, lake or ocean while naked). They love to be surrounded by beautiful things that make them feel calm and relaxed. Perhaps sentimental objects that remind them of their old lover, teenage crush or lost love, such as love letters, photos, scrapbooks. They may even be addicted with divination (tarot, i-ching, psychics) in order to find information on their love life. Use magick for love spells, too. Candles and incense. Pretty fabrics: crushed silk, lace and cashmere. Their home may be cluttered with knick-knacks due to them being so sentimental. Their wall colors and textiles might be shell, cream, pastels, candy or sherbert colors, roses, pinks, peach, lavender, mint, and watery blues. Art work of kittens, children, puppies, romantic couples. Their favorite foods are comfort foods they liked since children...foods made by mom when they were sick, or sweets made by grandma.

Sexuality: They can't separate sex from love. They are really more sensual than sexual. They want a mental and emotional commitment before giving themselves up to someone sexually. They want to feel appreciated as a person. Sex with strangers is an absurd idea. They want to make love to a lover who is also a friend. They are completely concerned if their sexual partner is not sexually happy. They are attracted to people who can seem to be mysterious, effiminant or egnimatic, like the goth-romantic or girly-girl look.

3. Swords

Sensuality: They like to feel the coolness of the air on their bodies. They are naturally nudists. They love silk (because it feels cool), linen, gauze, light knits, and crochet fabrics so their body can breath. Or sleek as leather, vinyl and PVC. They like to keep the windows open. They love cool drinks. They would even eat lots of ice cream in the winter. Strangely, they feel comfortable in scientific and futuristic enviroments, therefore, their home would be surrounded by glass, chrome metals, concrete, lacquered woods, marble, etc. They are minimalists. Their home must have lots of space. Either big rooms or lack of furniture. Their wall colors and textile might be primary colors...white, black, red, blue, yellow, silver, or modern brights...turqouise, neons, fuschia, magenta, etc. If they have art on their walls, it would be of cars, architecture photography, aerial photography, etc. They really don't have favorite foods, because eating is just a function when hungry. They can eat anything.

Sexuality: Their sexuality is intellectual based. They are sexually attracted to a "cold" and distant person, such as an anti-social genius. They prefer people who are not too romantic, but aloof. They might be attracted to people who wear glasses and wear "nerd" or preppy fashion. They can separate love from sex like Wands, but they are more cold about it by participating in S & M, Bondage, roleplay. Perhaps, one can't have love or sex without pain or discomfort as long as if it is consensual.

5. Pentacles

Sensuality: This is the most sensual suit to exist. They are snobs when it comes to everything. They want the best of the best in their home. Things have to be highly ornate or higly expensive, even if it is plain looking, because money and power turns them on. They need to be surrounded by things that boast their ego. Designer, haute couture, name brands, something always new and trendy or old, but classic. Fabrics in velvet, leather, embroideries, silk, antic lace. Curtains, towels and blankets must have tassels. Favorite foods are anything that looks pretty on the plate, such as cuisines. They may like things from exotic lands, such as Buddha statues, Kimonos, art from India, Africa, Thailand, Burma, Mexico, Japan and China. They like exotic foods, too.

Sexuality: Power, money, fame and wealth is sexy. Their affection can be bought, if they are a gigolo or golddigger. Or the they have no problem buying people for love or sex. They want a person who looks like a model, a trophy wife or a man who seems like a great catch financially. They are the most pickiest of all lovers, because only a person who fits their ideals can be their lover. Perhaps they can be shallow concerning love, since the look at a person's wealth, breast size or social status, before considering them as a made. Wall colors may be white, tans, cream, brown, maroon, burgundy, curry, pumpkin, sage, gold, copper. Artwork historical paintings and regional artwork. They may be prone to fetishes, because sexual objects is more important than a sexy human being or getting to know a human being for who they are instead of what they represent.


I would like to hear how you perceive the different suits. You can discuss court characters (pages, knights, queens and kings), if you like.
 

Tryska

you have an interesting take - and i've never seen them broken down quite like this. I don't know how on the mark the Cups suit is tho.

From an astrological perspective - Cups would include Cancer and Scorpio - and i wouldn't really ascribe the almost virginal sexuality to those two signs, myself.
 

BLFO

I wouldn't say virginal, just more emotional. And emotional people maybe careful in guarding their feelings in order not to get hurt. I wouldn't say that they are timid or prude, just that they know their own limitations in being sexually or romantically daring and inhibited. Even if they did do one night stands, they can't just leave from it like the Wands, by justing thinking that they had a good time and they have no expectation of seeing that person ever again, therefore so be it. Next!

Cups can't do that, I think. Cups would say "Yeah, I know that he/she was a stranger, but it was good sex. I wonder, if there is a possiblity that I could see them again. Oh, this is insane. I don't know who they are and I am already emotionally attach to them. Oh, please. Please! Let them be interested in more with me!"

That is what I think.
 

CLRC

Wands contradiction

You have a very interesting take on this subject. And mostly it sounds plausible - I too wonder about a scorpio needing "love" - being ruled by their sex organs as they are.

But I feel like the different sensuality and sexuality for wands just does not add up. Why would a snuggly person enjoy one night stands. It seems to me the 1st type you described would also place more importance on love than "sex". I wondered how you reconciled that?

Thanks for posting such an interesting topic.
Kelly
 

sweet_intuition

Well... this is what I have read about the RWS Courts

WANDS

KING:- a handsome well built man who possesses an overactive phal.. er.. drive. An honest man who understands the needs of others. As well as news concerning an unexpected sexual affair.

Inverted:- Good orgasm's via violent sex. A severe man with high sexual principles who's also ruthless in bed. Also a man who's foolishly tolerant of his sexual partner's who'll do him more harm than good. A likely victim of sexual extortion.


QUEEN:- A loving and friendly woman with an exotic, sensual, and magnetic personality. If the card beside her is signified by a man, then she is impassioned by him. A beautiful woman who's sought after many men, but she confines her activites to the one man at a time. A woman of great charm, a loving paramour.

Inverted:- A jealous woman of unstable emotions, perhaps even an unfaithful lover.A friendly yet deceptive woman who's not to be trusted. (Think of a song by Nelly Furtado). A woman so consumed by her desires, that she'll take in a lover when she feels a hint of coolness from her husband.


KNIGHT:- An attractive young man who "hits and runs", but never "kisses and tells". A man with speedy erections and well.. lets just say speedy everything else. Sudden flight from one bed to another, can even change sexual orientation or be very experimental when bored.

Inverted:- An impetuous youth with an equally impetuous phal.. er.. drive.


PAGE:- A young messenger who either brings news of love, or is a possible sexual candidate as well. If followed by the Page of Cups, a dangerous rival phal..er.. drive. A young heartbreaker who offers women nothing more than a ... 'stiffy'. A gigolo or a secret love.

Inverted:- An indecisive lover with a reluctant phal..er..drive. Emotional instability, coitus interuptus. Also, a young lover who tells all, a sexual gossip, who cums a bit too soon.


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CUPS


KING:- A man of responsibility who is endowed with a very aesthetic phal..er.. oh hell I'll just say it... phallus, who never shirks his sexual duties. A man disposed to oblidge the querents need, and in a way, he also has a thing for innocent and religious people. A sexually creative man.

Inverted:- A double dealing man, a liar, a seducer, someone who uses their power to extort sex (such a scorpio). A cuckold. Someone who falsely promises love just to get laid. Dishonesty in sexual relationships, exotic exaction, scandal, vice, loss of reputation, sometimes even impotence (so much for the aesthetic phallus).


QUEEN:- A romantic woman with rich sexual powers. A perfect lover/mistress who'll sexually serve the querent. A woman who encourages coitus and gains pleasure from the orgasms of others. A woman with wild sexual fantasies but is practical in bed. Sensual, happines, and pleasure.

Inverted:- A woman skilled in the art of sexual pleasure, but isn't to be trusted. A beautiful and sensous woman who can lead a man to financial ruin. A homebreaker.


KNIGHT: A sexually imaginative young man. Provocotive proposals, sexual arrival, excitement, amatory advances, new throes of passion, sex in the name of business, the arrival of a new lover.

Inverted:- A wife seducer,a fraud. A sly and cunning young man who's only aim is to get in your pants. Duplicity, artificial friendship for sexual gain.


PAGE:- An effeminate young man who is impelled to render sexual service. A young lover known for invigorous copulation.

Inverted:- A rebellious youth, a deceptive young man . The kind of guy who your mother warns you about during your teen years. Also, the younger man who seduces older women, and also known to slip in a ruffie or two in a girls drink.


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SWORDS


KING:- A sexual potent man who has a command over his orgasms. A man of incomparable sexual technique and un paralleled passion. A man of erotic power and militant sexuality. A man who will take command in sexual pursuits.

Inverted:- A brilliant but sadistic man; one who would plan the overthrow of a happy sexual relationship. This is the card of sadists and flagellants.


QUEEN:- A lonely sadistic frigid woman who masterbates due to loneliness. Also someone who is mourning a lost lover, or perhaps yearning for a new one.

Inverted:-[/b] A trecherous deceitful woman full of sexual malice. A prude with suppressed desires.


KNIGHT:- A cold and effecient yet forceful man whose depth of emotion manifests itself only in sexual embrace. A man of great sexual skill who conquers the 'objects' of his choice. A brave man of great orgasmic capacity; dedicated libertinism.

Inverted:- Sexual troubles; impulsive sex; erotic imprudence; lack of finesse; a strangely shaped, perhaps bent phallus. A young man representing the above. A man who doesn't hesitate paying for it. An impusive young man who goes "too fast".


PAGE:- A voyeur. A young man who masterbates to porn a bit too much. A peeping tom. A sexually curious young man or woman who enjoys watching other people get it on. A youthful lover who in a way is a secret affair.

Inverted:- A depressed person who feels sexually inadequate. Unforseen results due to early sexual indulgence. Weakened sexuality through misuse.


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PENTACLES


KING:- A virile, affectionate, and intelligent man who can reason his way into any bed (how taurus). A sexually brave and successful man who in a way would be very suseptible to gifts in return of sexual favors.

Inverted:- A man who pays for it. A sexually and monetarily extravagant man who indulges way too much in drunkeness, gluttony, and even orgiastic sexual activities.


QUEEN:- Orgasmic opulence, phallic generosity, sexual freedom, sex for sex's sake, also a woman representing these. A woman of magnificent beauty and exciting sexual escapades. Wealth of sensual pleasures. Piqued erogenous zones.

Inverted:- A sexually cruel woman who is sadistic in the bed of love. A viscious, licentious woman. An unsated woman who lives in a state of sexual anxiety; also, mistrustful of sexual partners. Fearful sexual fantasies; suspiscious passions and desires.


KNIGHT:- A young sensual man who is qualified to teach sexual technique. A man who will buy a woman's love, not with money, but by providing her with gratifying orgasms (in other words, a virgo who gives great head). A man of sexual acheivement and orgasmic plenty.

Inverted:- Narrowmindedness; sexual intertia; stagnant sexual technique; impotent copulations; idle masterbation; preoccupation with personal orgasms; inability to yield; one-tracked mind; confined to desultory sex acts; discouragement of exploratory sex acts and positions. A man representing the above.


PAGE:- A sexually curious youth who applies himself studiously to variations of the sex act. A young daydreamer who may be cultivated by the right sexual mate. Thoughts of the sex act and curiosity regarding orgasms.

Inverted A rebellious youth with the hippie philosophy of free love and free sex. A sensual but reckless youth, wasteful sex with lavish erections. Nonconforming sexuality. Extreme passions and reckless desires.


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Taken from the Sexual Key to the Tarot by Theodor Laurence
 

BLFO

CLRC said:
You have a very interesting take on this subject. And mostly it sounds plausible - I too wonder about a scorpio needing "love" - being ruled by their sex organs as they are.

But I feel like the different sensuality and sexuality for wands just does not add up. Why would a snuggly person enjoy one night stands. It seems to me the 1st type you described would also place more importance on love than "sex". I wondered how you reconciled that?

Thanks for posting such an interesting topic.
Kelly


they are not snuggly because they are romantic. They like to hug and cuddle because the like the feel of the body heat! They feel "inept" as a person if they don't have a body - somebody or anybody - next to or near them.
 

BLFO

sweet_intuition said:
Well... this is what I have read about the RWS Courts

WANDS

KING:- a handsome well built man who possesses an overactive phal.. er.. drive. An honest man who understands the needs of others. As well as news concerning an unexpected sexual affair.

Inverted:- Good orgasm's via violent sex. A severe man with high sexual principles who's also ruthless in bed. Also a man who's foolishly tolerant of his sexual partner's who'll do him more harm than good. A likely victim of sexual extortion.


QUEEN:- A loving and friendly woman with an exotic, sensual, and magnetic personality. If the card beside her is signified by a man, then she is impassioned by him. A beautiful woman who's sought after many men, but she confines her activites to the one man at a time. A woman of great charm, a loving paramour.

Inverted:- A jealous woman of unstable emotions, perhaps even an unfaithful lover.A friendly yet deceptive woman who's not to be trusted. (Think of a song by Nelly Furtado). A woman so consumed by her desires, that she'll take in a lover when she feels a hint of coolness from her husband.


KNIGHT:- An attractive young man who "hits and runs", but never "kisses and tells". A man with speedy erections and well.. lets just say speedy everything else. Sudden flight from one bed to another, can even change sexual orientation or be very experimental when bored.

Inverted:- An impetuous youth with an equally impetuous phal.. er.. drive.


PAGE:- A young messenger who either brings news of love, or is a possible sexual candidate as well. If followed by the Page of Cups, a dangerous rival phal..er.. drive. A young heartbreaker who offers women nothing more than a ... 'stiffy'. A gigolo or a secret love.

Inverted:- An indecisive lover with a reluctant phal..er..drive. Emotional instability, coitus interuptus. Also, a young lover who tells all, a sexual gossip, who cums a bit too soon.


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CUPS


KING:- A man of responsibility who is endowed with a very aesthetic phal..er.. oh hell I'll just say it... phallus, who never shirks his sexual duties. A man disposed to oblidge the querents need, and in a way, he also has a thing for innocent and religious people. A sexually creative man.

Inverted:- A double dealing man, a liar, a seducer, someone who uses their power to extort sex (such a scorpio). A cuckold. Someone who falsely promises love just to get laid. Dishonesty in sexual relationships, exotic exaction, scandal, vice, loss of reputation, sometimes even impotence (so much for the aesthetic phallus).


QUEEN:- A romantic woman with rich sexual powers. A perfect lover/mistress who'll sexually serve the querent. A woman who encourages coitus and gains pleasure from the orgasms of others. A woman with wild sexual fantasies but is practical in bed. Sensual, happines, and pleasure.

Inverted:- A woman skilled in the art of sexual pleasure, but isn't to be trusted. A beautiful and sensous woman who can lead a man to financial ruin. A homebreaker.


KNIGHT: A sexually imaginative young man. Provocotive proposals, sexual arrival, excitement, amatory advances, new throes of passion, sex in the name of business, the arrival of a new lover.

Inverted:- A wife seducer,a fraud. A sly and cunning young man who's only aim is to get in your pants. Duplicity, artificial friendship for sexual gain.


PAGE:- An effeminate young man who is impelled to render sexual service. A young lover known for invigorous copulation.

Inverted:- A rebellious youth, a deceptive young man . The kind of guy who your mother warns you about during your teen years. Also, the younger man who seduces older women, and also known to slip in a ruffie or two in a girls drink.


_________________________


SWORDS


KING:- A sexual potent man who has a command over his orgasms. A man of incomparable sexual technique and un paralleled passion. A man of erotic power and militant sexuality. A man who will take command in sexual pursuits.

Inverted:- A brilliant but sadistic man; one who would plan the overthrow of a happy sexual relationship. This is the card of sadists and flagellants.


QUEEN:- A lonely sadistic frigid woman who masterbates due to loneliness. Also someone who is mourning a lost lover, or perhaps yearning for a new one.

Inverted:-[/b] A trecherous deceitful woman full of sexual malice. A prude with suppressed desires.


KNIGHT:- A cold and effecient yet forceful man whose depth of emotion manifests itself only in sexual embrace. A man of great sexual skill who conquers the 'objects' of his choice. A brave man of great orgasmic capacity; dedicated libertinism.

Inverted:- Sexual troubles; impulsive sex; erotic imprudence; lack of finesse; a strangely shaped, perhaps bent phallus. A young man representing the above. A man who doesn't hesitate paying for it. An impusive young man who goes "too fast".


PAGE:- A voyeur. A young man who masterbates to porn a bit too much. A peeping tom. A sexually curious young man or woman who enjoys watching other people get it on. A youthful lover who in a way is a secret affair.

Inverted:- A depressed person who feels sexually inadequate. Unforseen results due to early sexual indulgence. Weakened sexuality through misuse.


_________________________


PENTACLES


KING:- A virile, affectionate, and intelligent man who can reason his way into any bed (how taurus). A sexually brave and successful man who in a way would be very suseptible to gifts in return of sexual favors.

Inverted:- A man who pays for it. A sexually and monetarily extravagant man who indulges way too much in drunkeness, gluttony, and even orgiastic sexual activities.


QUEEN:- Orgasmic opulence, phallic generosity, sexual freedom, sex for sex's sake, also a woman representing these. A woman of magnificent beauty and exciting sexual escapades. Wealth of sensual pleasures. Piqued erogenous zones.

Inverted:- A sexually cruel woman who is sadistic in the bed of love. A viscious, licentious woman. An unsated woman who lives in a state of sexual anxiety; also, mistrustful of sexual partners. Fearful sexual fantasies; suspiscious passions and desires.


KNIGHT:- A young sensual man who is qualified to teach sexual technique. A man who will buy a woman's love, not with money, but by providing her with gratifying orgasms (in other words, a virgo who gives great head). A man of sexual acheivement and orgasmic plenty.

Inverted:- Narrowmindedness; sexual intertia; stagnant sexual technique; impotent copulations; idle masterbation; preoccupation with personal orgasms; inability to yield; one-tracked mind; confined to desultory sex acts; discouragement of exploratory sex acts and positions. A man representing the above.


PAGE:- A sexually curious youth who applies himself studiously to variations of the sex act. A young daydreamer who may be cultivated by the right sexual mate. Thoughts of the sex act and curiosity regarding orgasms.

Inverted A rebellious youth with the hippie philosophy of free love and free sex. A sensual but reckless youth, wasteful sex with lavish erections. Nonconforming sexuality. Extreme passions and reckless desires.


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Taken from the Sexual Key to the Tarot by Theodor Laurence


thank you for typing that out. That is great for people to print out for reference!



This weekend I am going to think of the type of gifts each suits would like to receive for birthday, valentine, christmas, or whatever special occassion. This would come in handy if you do a reading on someone who might come up as a a particular court card on a romantic/sexual level and you need to buy them the perfect gift in order to impress them. Good idea, since Valentine's is coming up. [laughs]
 

WalesWoman

This is interesting.

For some reason my thoughts for Pentacles would be more earthy than decadant or hedonistic, maybe it would be a Knight rather than a King or Queen Pents. Because I was thinking these are the ones who have no artifice, enjoy the sensations, don't mind the sweat and all that, but aren't all that creative or into making the ambience romantic, anywhere is fine... just sort of do it and then ask you to pull their finger afterwards. I guess there aren't any Pig Courts. Anyway I was thinking of the Bull in the China shop sorts, sweet, loving, but bumbling and not very fastidious. Maybe I've been hanging out with the outdoorsy "manly men" types too long. LOL (Speaking of which, there is a soap called "Manly man" and it smells like old sweat and gym socks.) :p
BFLO said:
they are not snuggly because they are romantic. They like to hug and cuddle because the like the feel of the body heat! They feel "inept" as a person if they don't have a body - somebody or anybody - next to or near them.
Oh Contraire!!! Body heat is a bonus on winter nights, but wands like to snuggle because it feels so good and says I love you without having to say the words, similar to cat's purring. And like a cat they can be affectionate or be just fine on their own... it all depends on what mood they are in.
As a Wand, BFLO's and sweet-intuition's descriptions sort of fits, except wands are too very romantic and horny, romance is what keeps the fires hot, not just the hormone levels.
I think Wands are Lovers first and friends second. Swords are the other way round... they want a friend who is also their lover.
My personal assessment of a Page of Wands is similar to kids just entering puberty and wondering what the hell is going on when they get their first erection, etc. So there is much self indulgence and self gratification in their discoveries. This and the Knight would be the most promiscuous I think of all the courts... except maybe the Knight of Cups.
I think the Knight of Wands would probably have a "hair trigger" as well as being trigger happy, fun to be with, but not to expect a long term romance with, tho' he'd love to be friends always and come back for seconds, just not commit to more than that.

That's all I can think of right now.
 

Tryska

sweet_intuition said:
Well... this is what I have read about the RWS Courts


Taken from the Sexual Key to the Tarot by Theodor Laurence

Now this is pretty interesting. How's the rest of this book?
 

sweet_intuition

Tryska said:
Now this is pretty interesting. How's the rest of this book?

Well.. it's a tiny and extremely thin book... but it contains some interesting information.