This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a place to explore our spiritual concepts,

tools, and practices to deepen your healing and awakening.

I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and a Kashik Records practitioner and teacher.

I'm honored that you're here and happy to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. To check out my services

and courses, please visit josephinehardmann.com. Welcome to the final installment in this four-part

series on the tarot suit of wands.

Today we are dealing with these most elusive cards, the court cards.

Now, I say most elusive in the sense that a lot of people first learning the tarot have a difficult time connecting with the court cards.

These are the pages, knights, queens, and kings of the deck, and we have a set of four

court cards for each suit. In general, we can look at court cards in a variety of ways. So this is

not just for the ones, court cards, but overall. So first,

on a kind of surface level, court cards can represent actual people in our lives. So a king might show

up to represent a father figure or a boss or a teacher or a particular friend that we have.

A page might show up to represent a child in your life since pages are associated with

youthfulness and they tend to represent children or just a young energy.

A queen might show up to represent a mother figure

or a boss or a friend just like a king. And knights are typically seen as representing an

adolescent energy. They are like the teenagers of the deck and so are still learning, they're still growing.

They can sometimes be a little bit impulsive in their thoughts or actions.

Second, if we take this a bit deeper, court guards can also portray aspects of yourself.

So perhaps a page might show up to remind you that it's important to be playful, to be in awe of the world, to return to a state of beginner's

mind, right, to be a student and keep learning and keep growing. Or a king might show up to represent another aspect of

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