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Hello, and welcome to Inner Work.

This is the final episode in a four-part series on the tarot suit of swords. Today we're diving into the

court cards, which I see basically as the set of cards that closes out the suit. So we're

following the Ten of Sores, which is the last card we looked at in episode number three of this series. I think we have to open with a

discussion of court cards as a specific category of tarot cards. They can be infamously

challenging to learn and to connect with, and there are so many different ways to look at the

court cards. Generally speaking,

they make up four different family units in the tarot deck. So the family of pentacles,

the family of cups, the family of wands, and the family of swords. In these families,

the pages represent children, knights represent teenagers, queens

represent mothers or mother figures, and kings represent fathers or father figures. So first off,

I do want to say that to me, this understanding or interpretation of the court cards is limited in that it doesn't take into

account other types of family structures and dynamics.

So it really is based on a quote unquote traditional heteronormative and in some ways

exclusionary family structure.

For example, my own family structure is excluded from what I see in the court cards

because I am married to a man and we don't have biological children out of choice,

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