Rider-Waite Court Cards

Rider-Waite Court Cards

The Rider-Waite court cards divinatory meanings, and keywords. The Court card titles includ the Kings, Knights, Queens, Pages and Aces

Titles of the Rider-Waite Court Cards

  • Father – Knight
  • Mother – Queen
  • Son – King
  • Daughter – Page or Knave
King of Wands – Rider-Waite

King of Wands – Rider-Waite

Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BnDevAdARql/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The physical and emotional nature to which this card is attributed is dark, ardent, lithe, animated, impassioned, noble. The King uplifts a flowering wand, and wears, like his three...

Queen of Wands – Rider-Waite

Queen of Wands – Rider-Waite

Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm5R8meltNz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=1ppcnc8jhco0j The Wands throughout this suit are always in leaf, as it is a suit of life and animation. Emotionally and otherwise, the Queen's personality corresponds to that...

Knight of Wands – Rider-Waite

Knight of Wands – Rider-Waite

Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BnDgvFKggRX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link He is shewn as if upon a journey, armed with a short wand, and although mailed is not on a warlike errand. He is passing mounds or pyramids. The motion of the horse is a key to the...

King of Cups – Rider-Waite

King of Cups – Rider-Waite

Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BmXtnV3AUaa/ He holds a short sceptre in his left hand and a great cup in his right; his throne is set upon the sea; on one side a ship is riding and on the other a dolphin is leaping. The implicit is that the Sign of the Cup...

Queen of Cups – Rider-Waite

Queen of Cups – Rider-Waite

Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BmimRcOAZdW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Beautiful, fair, dreamy - as one who sees visions in a cup. This is, however, only one of her aspects; she sees, but she also acts, and her activity feeds her dream. Meanings Good, fair...

Knight of Cups – Rider-Waite

Knight of Cups – Rider-Waite

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmiHKizg_jd/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Graceful, but not warlike; riding quietly, wearing a winged helmet, referring to those higher graces of the imagination which sometimes characterize this card. He too is a dreamer, but the images of...

King of Swords – Rider-Waite

King of Swords – Rider-Waite

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnDX4F9AHrl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link He sits in judgment, holding the unsheathed sign of his suit. He recalls, of course, the conventional Symbol of justice in the Trumps Major, and he may represent this virtue, but he is rather the...

Queen of Swords – Rider-Waite

Queen of Swords – Rider-Waite

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm5VuijlJnS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=1qfdo0731qv4t Her right hand raises the weapon vertically and the hilt rests on an arm of her royal chair the left hand is extended, the arm raised her countenance is severe but chastened;...

Knight of Swords – Rider-Waite

Knight of Swords – Rider-Waite

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnDa00-gNRV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link He is riding in full course, as if scattering his enemies. In the design he is really a prototypical hero of romantic chivalry. He might almost be Galahad, whose sword is swift and sure because he is...

King of Pentacles – Rider-Waite

King of Pentacles – Rider-Waite

Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BnAwNqZAqiU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The figure calls for no special description the face is rather dark, suggesting also courage, but somewhat lethargic in tendency. The bull's head should be noted as a recurrent symbol on...

Queen of Pentacles – Rider-Waite

Queen of Pentacles – Rider-Waite

Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm-b2QQgNDM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=abai9nh96obo The face suggests that of a dark woman, whose qualities might be summed up in the idea of greatness of soul; she has also the serious cast of intelligence; she...

Knight of Pentacles – Rider-Waite

Knight of Pentacles – Rider-Waite

Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BnA_Re8AB3H/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He exhibits his symbol, but does not look therein. Meanings Utility, serviceableness, interest,...