Question: When adding up the numbers should page, knight, queen and king be set to 0 or 11, 12, 13, 14 respectively? Possible Answers: The easiest way - and the way I presently do the courts - is to simply give them no value - or a value of zero [0]. The reasoning behind this is that in no tarot deck I have seen are the court cards numbered. The second option is to continue the count as you have it above. 11 - Pages 12 - Knights 13 - Queens 14 - Kings You could easily reverse the above order if that's what works for you. 11 - Kings 12 - Queens 13 - Knights 14 - Pages 3rd Option You can also give the courts a value according to their rank. 1 - King 2 - Queen 3 - Knight 4 - Page Again you could reverse the values, i.e. King = 4, Queen =3, etc. 4th Option If I do happen to use values for the courts I normally use dual values according to card and rank - or for numerology purposes I will simply use the value of 6 for each and every court since the dual totals for each court add up to 6. 11/4 - Pages [1+1+4=6] 12/3 - Knights [1+2+3=6] 13/2 - Queens [1+3+2=6] 14/1 - Kings [1+4+1=6] 5th Option You could use the 'card counting values' for the courts as in card counting and card pairing techniques. Kings/Knights/Queens/Princes = 3 Pages/Princesses = 7 For card counting and card pairing see: http://tarotstudies.50webs.com/counting_chart.shtml http://tarotstudies.50webs.com/patty_reading1.shtml But the easiest way is to just give the court cards a value of zero [0] for numerology purposes. But try a couple of different methods to see what works for you. Don S.
Don S.