The court cards do go by elements and astrology similar to any other card in the Tarot. As many of you probably know, the court cards go by the element of their respective suit. Additional to this the Golden Dawn system attributes a secondary element to the court cards.
As an example: Each court card of the Swords corresponds with air - which is the element of its respective suit! However, each court card, no matter what suit it belongs to will have the following additional elements:
•The Four Knights: Fire
•The Four Queens: Water
•The Four Kings - Air
•The Four Princesses / Pages - Earth
Additionally, they also correspond to the qabbalistic Tree of Life as well to a letter of the Tetragrammaton:
•The Four Knights: Chokmah - Yod
•The Four Queens: Binah - Heh
•The Four Kings: Tiphareth - Vav
•The Four Princesses / Pages: Malkuth - Heh
Knights, Queens and Kings all rule three decans as well. For instance the Queen of Swords rules the last decan of Virgo and the first two decans of Libra. This also gives you clues to the divinatory meaning of each court card.
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