Knight cards

[GDA]

Hi,

I was just wondering- for those who interpret court cards as people- do you consider Kinghts to be either male or female? Pages seem androgenous so it seems fine to use them for males and females, but the Knights often have beards and it seems that these cards are meant to represent men. If so, what would the Tarot use for females of the same age group (older than pages and younger than queens). It seems to me that the court cards should either have androgenous knights or they should be interpreted as influences-- such as a traditionally masucline emotion coming from a female (if one is meant to interpret a knight as fmeka).

Any thoughts?

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

I personally use knights to represent the male when speaking of a person, and the pages for "younger than the queen" female person. Most of the time, unless I get that really strong feeling about it being a person, I do use the knights as influences or expand on the base/traditional meaning of the card, or aspects of self coming out.

In the Witches tarot, There are Prince's and Princess's, so there's not much of an age descrepency there.

[Flaire-FireStar]

In the Witches tarot, There are Prince's and Princess's, so there's not much of an age descrepency there.

;) I was going to say the same thing about the Spiral Tarot.. Usually I don't think of the pages as "younger" than the knights - more of around the same age as..just the different gender... But it also depends on the feeling I'm getting from other cards around it. :)

[Major Tom]

I've often found that all the court cards can represent either sex. Seems I even remember someone named Lady Knight... then there was this guy I knew who was definitely a Queen.... :evilway:

[tarotbear]

Major Tom- When you Brits all get together and sing ' God Save The Queen' - you think he thought you were singing to him?

[Twilight Garden]

I usually think of the personality, if it represents a person. Not their physical features. Masculine features personally, not physically. But yeah, It's male for me and the Page is female. Many times though, it's not representing people.

[Major Tom]

Tarotbear - He was American!

[tarotbear]

****slightly off subject****

I do a lot of readings for a mostly gay male clientelle. When Court cards come, you almost HAVE to treat them as personalities and not gender-based concepts. After all, the Queens in his reading could refer to other gay men and not necessarily women.