"face" cards, or the court cards

okay, because i'm clearly too lazy to photograph, splice, and upload all of the ones from my deck, i'll just copy/paste these from other websites. and probably their meanings. or something. i don't know, i may just cliffnotes the hell out of it all. or just link the pictures! oooo... total laziness...

ummm, yeah. so there are shit-tons of different decks, even though essentially the cards mean the same thing; it's really just down to aesthetics. the top left one is from the very traditional Rider-Waite deck, and after that it just gets creative. there are differences in meanings between pages, knights, queens, and kings, as there are differences between pentacles/coins, swords, cups, and wands. it's actually pretty tied into western astrology, so if you haven't memorized the characteristics of earth (pentacles), air (swords), water (cups), or fire (wands) as astrological characteristics, since the twelve signs fall into those elemental categories and are therefore believed to share basic common things, then you're kind of fucked.

but i'll get into that later. i'm probably really just doing this because it's better than reading for other classes.

which i desperately need to do now.