{Court Symbols}[10th January 1988]

[Redbook4:306][19880110:1125]{Court Symbols}[10th January 1988]

19880110.1125

What is the relation of each Court Card figure to its symbol?

(Left here is figure's right, and v[ice]v[ersa].)

↑↓	Swords [Top]	Cups [Left]	Money [Right]	Clubs [Bottom]
Kings [Inmost]	w 00 ↑Holding up vertically. Face on each shoulder – active. Look right, content, sitting left. Hold sheath, diagonal right. Hieroglyphic on throne (tomb?)*	w (00) ↑Holding up near vertical. Look right; uncertain? Sitting left on throne.	(w) 00 ↓Holding down. Look right, Content Sitting left on throne.	w 00 ↓Holding down near-vertical. (Ornamented). Look right, Content. Throned, 'dancing' right.
Queens [Inner Circle]	w ↑Holding up near vertical. Look left, uncertain. Sitting on throne.	wh ↑Holding up vertical /↑/with diagonal sword. Look left, content? Sitting on throne.	wh ↑Holding up with diagonal sceptre. Look left, discontent. ½-sitting on throne.	w \↑\Holding up diagonal (Rough carved). Look right, discontent. Sitting or stepping up. (No throne.)
Knights (all mounted) [Outer Circle]	h \↑\Holding up forward (up) near diagonal. Face on other shoulder, discontent. Look left, Move left, neutral? Moving energetically. Vague Hieroglyphics on horse blanket.	h ↑Holding up vertical. To left, uncertain. Moving.	h ↑Not holding – watching. Holding diagonal club. To right, Content. Moving.	00 ↑Hold up vertical tree trunk. (TURNING?) Ride left, look right. Uncertain. Moving.
Knaves (all on foot) [Outer-most]	00 ↑Holding up near vertical. Look left, discontent. Standing. (+ sheath/club?)	o ↑Holding up near vertical (lid off) To left, discontent. Walking – moving.	00 ↑Holding up (+ 1 on ground). To left, discontent. Standing.	h ↑Hold down (or up) vertical trunk (still rooted?). Looking right, discontent. Standing. (Actually holding up by top – because rooted.)

Bearing in mind the crowns on** TVI(?), TVII, and TVIII – it may be that the Number and Court Cards moving inwards from Ace through 10 to King – only reach the outside of the Circles, or the level of the Circle II - IV, at Kings; or, as at present depicted, reach that point at Knaves and the 'first' circle (T0) at Kings. On the whole (and bearing in mind the particularly dynamic characteristics of the Outer or 'Knights' Circle, and the movement on the Knights cards), I think I still prefer the present version.

*[In the ms there is an attempt to represent the hieroglyphic, showing something like a diagonal winged arrow pointing up left, and a spiral.]

**(ref [[Redbook4:252][19871221:1955b]{The Tarot Pack [continued (4)]}[21st December 1987]&f?] 252)

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