One of the ways we might read court cards, as I discussed in the previous part of my Tarot 101 series, is to look at them as people. A pulled tarot card might represent yourself or someone in your life, or you might even choose to select a court card as a signifier to intentionally represent yourself or someone else in a reading. But how do you choose? We can personalize and analyze the qualities of each card to understand how a selected court card might represent one person or another, but one interesting way of attaching personality these cards that has been discussed is using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test.
By Jake Beech - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test (MBTI) is a “personality inventory” test used to make Carl Jung’s psychological research “understandable and useful” for people (Myers & Briggs Foundation). The test asks subjects to identify preferences based on the four dichotomies from Jung’s theories:
Favorite world - used to define Extraverted (E) or Introverted (I) personality types
Information - used to define Sensing (S) or Intuition (N) personality types
Decisions - used to define Thinking (T) or Feeling (F) personality types
Structure - used to define Judging (J) or Perceiving (P) personality types
When the result of each of these dichotomies is defined, a personality type is expressed in a four character “code” (Myers & Briggs Foundation).
(You can take the MBTI test here.)
There are sixteen possible MBTI personality types (you can learn more about each type from the Myers-Briggs Foundation here). There are also sixteen court cards in a standard tarot deck with four face cards in each suit. The personality types can be more broadly attached to suits overall. For instance, Wands and Cups are both intuitive (N) suits, but wands are thinking (T) while cups are feeling (F). Swords and Pentacles can be paired in the same way. Both Swords and Pentacles are sensing (S) suits, but Swords are thinking (T) while Pentacles are feeling (F) (TarotX).
Using the MBTI personality codes can help us understand the ways that the suits interact with in a deck and how the different court cards differ from one another. As an example, we can look at the Knight of Wands and the Knight of Cups. Both intuitive individuals, but the Knight of Wands takes more time to think logically while the Knight of Cups is more considerate of people’s feelings and emotionally driven consequences.
It is also useful for breaking down stereotypes that are often embedded in the court cards, such as masculine power over feminine individuals with the implication that the Kings are move valuable cards than the Queens. (Plot twist: they’re equally capable and powerful cards, they just operate differently.) All MBTI personality types are equally valuable, and the court cards are too. Personality types of Individual Court Cards
Suit of Wands
Page of Wands - INTP
Knights of Wands - ENTP
Queen of Wands - INTJ
King of Wands - ENTJ
Suit of Cups
Page of Cups - INFP
Knights of Cups - ENFP
Queen of Cups - INFJ
King of Cups - ENFJ
Suit of Swords
Page of Swords - ISTP
Knight of Swords - ESTP
Queen of Swords - ISTJ
King of Swords - ESTJ
Suit of Pentacles
Page of Pentacles - ISFP
Knight of Pentacles - ESFP
Queen of Pentacles - ISFJ
King of Pentacles - ESFJ
Knowing your own MBTI personality type (or other’s) can be useful for getting a deeper understanding of the way court cards function should you choose to read them as people. It can also help you select signifiers by selecting the card that matches your particular personality type or selecting a card with a personality type you’d like to embody. For instance, if you are INTJ (Queen of Wands), you may choose to signify that you want to be more extroverted by placing an ENTJ (King of Wands) card.
Understanding and using MBTI tests and types and understanding Jung’s theories (which have been used to develop modern understandings of tarot and shadow work) is one way that you can continue to deepen your readings and give yourself more resources for approaching readings beyond card keywords.
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Sources:
“16 MBTI Personality Types in Tarot Court Cards.” TarotX, 13 Mar. 2020, tarotx.net/16-mbti-personality-court-cards/.
“MBTI Basics.” The Myers & Briggs Foundation - MBTI® Basics, www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/.
More Tarot 101: Welcome to Tarot / The Story of the Major Arcana / Card Keywords / Choosing a Deck / Practice Makes Perfect / Bonding with Your Deck(s) / An Introduction to Court Cards / Methods of Reading Court Cards / Using Personality Types to Understand Court Cards
The Knight of the Flowers, 1894, by Georges Rochegrosse. Detail and photo by Paul Perrin. Edit.
Witch tips! For any witch-baby, closeted, and budgeted witches as well!
The bead section! THERE ARE CHEAP CRYSTALS HERE. Just read the tag to know what's what. Convenient, cute, and easily written off as jewelry for our closet witches.
The JARRRRRSSSS SECTIONNNN and also the jewelry second for all sorts of cute tiny jars!
Clay! You can literally make anything from both ovenbake and air-dry clay-runes, athame, jars, wand, plates for offerings make a flat disk and stick a sigil on it, etc etc etc. Possiblities are endless
1$ thingies of cloth-these are little packages of different sorts of 1 sq ft cloth of any kind and pattern. Poppets, tarot & rune bags, etc can be made!
Loads of little decorations and things in the jewelry section for offerings, witchy jewelry, representations of deities, etc!
LOVELY JOURNALS FOR GRIMIORESSS and pretty pens for the same :D
Stickers etc in the scrapbooking section for correspondences/if you want illustrations/deity pages/honestly you can do so much
Woodworking section! Boxes for everything for deity alters, Fae houses, and organization which we all know we won't actually do. Also woodburning sets of you're feeling artsy! Also the wooden dowels make great wooden wands! Easy to carve if wanted, and decorate. Many different sizes and lengths to choose from.
Sewing section for ribbons, embroidery floss, etc for correspondences!
Candles and candlemaking kits!! Mae your own herb blendsand candles with your exact intent!
Gold leaf-lotsa uses
I'll add more when I think of them
Incense! Candles, oils, and waxmelts!
Herbs! Find an exhaustive amount of herbs and spices in the food section
Altoids cans for small alters/containers
Sewing things & ribbons/see above
Cloth/see above
Jewelry/see above
Grimiore/see above
Clay/see above
I'll add more if I think of it
Tbh this place is getting better and better for witchy things
Sage! Palo Santo! A third thing I forgot!
Incenseeeee! And cute/cool holders.
Crystals now! I saw nice amethyst clusters, might have others now
Tarot cards!!!! FOR FIVE DOLLARSSS
Fountains! :D
Moon shaped lights! Crecent moon neon style, and little moon shaped balls that light up :D
Tapestries! All kinds, zodiac, chakra, even an herb chart!
Yoga booklets 👍
Salt lamps!
LED strips-not really witchy but hey its flashy, makes a nice pop on your alter
A ton of great decorative things, such as candle holders & organizational things
Grimiore things/see above
I'll add more later
SO MANY WONDERFUL TAROT DECKS & KITS
PENDULUM KITS
RUNE KITS
WITCHY BOOKS GALORE
CRYSTALSSS AND CRYSTAL BOOKS
SAGE/CLEANSING HERBS
Candles!
Oils!
Teas!
INVISIBLE INK PENS WITH LIGHTS FOR CLOSET WITCHES. Write a whole grimiore invisible to prying eyes!
Chalices! Many decorative kinds
Grimiore things/see above
Crystals! Big, real, and cheap!
Decorative stuff!
Jars!
Grimiore things/see above
Hoooooo boy! Everything you could want
Incense!
Cleansing herbs!
Obscure herbs! Like lavender/coltsfoot/etc, things you won't find at Walmart
Tarot cards!
Pendulums! So many kinds
Runes!
Chalices!
Athames!
Crystals! Clusters and smoothed.
Figurines! Of deities and such
Cauldrons! Lots of kinds, even a cute teapot shaped one :D
Crystal balls!
Alter cloths!
Wands!
Honestly this is a one-stop shop for nearly anything, if I haven't mentioned it they probably still have it.
Yup, dollar tree. Surprisingly great
Spices!
Candles!
Ribbons!
Chalices! A wine glass is a chalice nonetheless
Jars!
Clay, sometimes!
Jewelry items!
Lots of miscellaneous items for alters/deities/offerings!
Just take a walk around, there's many things that can be repurposed!
I'll add more places if I think of them!
//Edited the hobby lobby part a little bit, because I don't want to seem like I support what they do.
I'm a transgender queer witch, I don't support their views.
Avoid Hobby Lobby if you can. I don't support the bullshittery that they do & wouldn't use them at all had I the option to, but I am a working artist and they're honestly my only option.
If you must use them, be sure to use their 40% coupon from their site each time you go because that's the closest we can legally get to robbing them out of some money. Use your loopholes to your advantage, even the small ones.
Journaling
Tarot readings
Affirmations
Creating Sigils
Dream journaling
Meditation
Lucid dreaming
Astral traveling
Carry things around with you to charge, collect energy, bond with them, or even to keep spells near by/activated (harking back to the idea of shaking a spell jar to reactivate it)
Visualize how you want to be seen while putting on makeup for a quick and easy glamor spell
express gratitude to deities and nature regularly - this counts as witchcraft and is low effort
Showers can not only cleanse you physically, but the element of water cleanses spiritually as well
similarly, baths are calming and can be used to create spells by the addition of safe plants and oils
incorporating music into verbal spells and meditation can cleanse and boost
the simple act of practicing self care and self love is witchcraft with the right intent!
Here is a link to some tips and trick for lucid dreaming!! - https://www.instagram.com/p/CAoft-8g9Yo/?igshid=1278r1ce8chpw
Source:
https://xristiwitch.com/lazy-witchcraft-for-the-lazy-witch/
A simple spell to help you love and respect yourself 💓
What You Need:
♡ A bowl
♡ cleansed water
♡ pen and paper
♡ empty spray bottle
♡ lavender
♡ rose petals
♡ optional: Rose quartz
Procedures:
♡ Gather all materials together
♡ Fill bowl with water, add a pinch of lavender and a pinch of rose petals.
♡ Optional: Set the rose quartz into the water as well.
♡ Draw out a sigil of self love, then fold the paper towards you. set the paper into the water.
♡ Close your eyes and stir the mix clockwise. Fill your mind with positive thoughts and allow it the fill you mix.
♡ Once you feel that you’ve filled the bowl enough, slowly poor the mix into your spray bottle.
Uses:
♡ spray a little on yourself when you’re feeling down about yourself.
♡ Spray it around you to invoke positivity in others
Show us what's on your tarot wishlist?
Now you've gone and done it! Where you can find the decks will be linked in the title above the image. Some of them are currently sold out.
Wonderful style and color palette. It looks really well rounded to me. Also the lovers are t4t, that's why I really like it. I love supporting trans artists too.
The COLORS. The details. The darkness. I've wanted this deck for probably years at this point. I just wanna hold it so bad. It looks badass to me.
A neon, psychedelic take on the classic Rider Waite. This is the most expensive deck on my list at 130, I could never justify buying it but it's still there.
I'm a fan of any art involving skeletons, and the black and gold and the line art are just brilliant.
Pretty ladies doing badass things. What more do you want? I like the diversity as well.
Once again, big fan of skeletons and also plants. I also seem to have a thing for any deck with a central piece of art and no or very thing borders. Reminds me of the linestrider tarot but darker.
This is absolutely a purely collector, novelty sort of deck but I don't mind. The style alone is wonderful and dark but I also naturally love the references to his movies because there's a couple I really like. Hope you enjoyed. Consider yourself lucky I didn't include oracle decks.
Tumblr is the worst platform for selling things but who cares I made these and I’m proud of them!
I love them. My little beans. Imagine useing these to add a touch of magic to a suit or something? Or just on some overalls- damn. The possibilities. This is me hyping up my own stuff because under capitalism I must. Anyway of you like them the packs are 10$! You can get them at Terrarium Treasures on etsy :)
*poses like malacath shrine* *poses like malacath shrine* *poses like malacath shrine*
guys will try to impress you by telling you they know everything about draconic mythology and folklore and then not even be able to tell you the difference between a wyrm and a wyvern
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Tea recipes for a glow up
So my tea business kind went down the drain because to legally sell tea in my state I need to mix them in a commercial kitchen. So I added the price of rent for a kitchen and the price of my herbs and it’s just not profitable. People aren’t willing to spend a million dollars on tea and that’s what I’d have to sell it for. So I’m releasing my recipes for free and you can buy the ingredients and make at home!
Rich Bitch Tea
This tropical tea has herbs that in folklore bring abundance and money. Plus it has caffeine to help to grind.
Coconut oolong tea
Dried pineapple
All spice
Nutmeg
Alfalfa
Moody Moon PMS
This tea is contraceptive safe unlike most!
Peony
Ashwagandha
Gymnema
Cinnamon
Point Blank Period
A period tea that is contraceptive safe! Only have up to 3 times a day
Chamomile
Motherwort
Cinnamon
Yarrow
Skinny legend
This tea will help with weight loss but you have to put in the work. It helps with cravings and in human trials was proven to be more than a placebo. I don’t want you guys abusing this though so only once a day okay!
Gymnema
Yerba mate
Fenugreek
Aphrodite Aphrodisiac
If there’s one thing I’m good at it’s attraction spells! So this tea will attract romantic love into your life
Rose
Cornflower
Nutmeg
Clove
Dried strawberries
Cinnamon
Dried cherries
Morning bloat tea
Peppermint
Fennel
Ginger
Lemon peels
I hope you guys get use out of them. I wish I could sell them to you but the FDA is just doing it’s job 🤷♀️
I recommend getting the herbs at rose mountain herbs.com