Sixteen court cards and I can only tell the Pages apart

Rachel Okonkwo ·

Two months in. The Majors are fine, the numbers are getting there, and the court cards are still sixteen people in fancy dress. Everything I read says "they are people or they are energies" which is not a distinction I can actually use. What made them click for you?

4 replies

  • Dev Malhotra ·

    Stop trying to decide whether they are a person or an energy. Ask who in the situation is behaving like that. Sometimes it is you, sometimes it is your boss, and the card does not care which.

  • Elena Vasquez ·

    Ranks before suits. Page is learning it, Knight is charging at it, Queen is holding it, King is answerable for it. Then put the suit on top. Four things to learn instead of sixteen.

  • Noor Haddad ·

    The Queens took me a year. Nobody tells beginners that the courts are the last thing to land, so you think you are failing at month two when you are exactly on schedule.

  • Rachel Okonkwo ·

    Ranks before suits is the first thing anybody has said about these that I can actually do tomorrow. Thank you.

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