He is active, generous, fierce, sudden and contemptuous.
Father in the Court Cards
Father is the family term for the older male court cards, known as the King or Knight. Father relates to the Yod of YHVH or the Fire element.
Names of the Father in the Court Cards
- Book of Thoth – Knight
- Rider-Waite – Knight
- Paul Foster-Case – Knight
- Golden Dawn King
Knight of Wands – Rider-Waite
Departure, absence, flight, emigration. A dark young man, friendly. Change of residence. Additional meaning: A bad card; according to some readings, alienation.
King of Cups – Golden Dawn
Graceful, poetic, venusian, indolent, but enthusiastic if roused.
Knight of Cups – Rider-Waite
Arrival, approach — sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition, demeanor, invitation, incitement.
King of Swords – Golden Dawn
He is active, clever, subtle, fierce, delicate, courageous, skilful, bit inclined to domineer. Also to overvalue small things, unless well-dignified.
Knight of Swords – Rider-Waite
Skill, bravery, capacity, defence, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin. There is therefore a sense in which the card signifies death, but it carries this meaning only in its proximity to other cards of fatality.
King of Pentacles – Golden Dawn
Unless very well dignified, he is heavy, dull and material. Laborious, clever and patient in material matters.
Knight of Pentacles – Rider-Waite
Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude—all on the normal and external plane.
Knight of Wands – Book of Thoth
The Knight of Wands is an older man, very active, powerful.
Knight of Cups – Book of Thoth
Enthusiastic but lacks endurance.
Knight of Swords – Book of Thoth
Activity, skill, subtlety
Knight of Disks – Book of Thoth
The Knight of Disks is a practical, hard working man. A business man.