Urchin
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- Sep 12, 2007
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- MBTI Type
- INTP
- Enneagram
- 5w6
I am fascinated with archetypical systems. It's why I'm so drawn to the MBTI. I recreationally study some occult systems and mythologies simply out of a desire to collate all the systems I can.
I was researching Tarot and found someone's attempt to attach MBTI types to the court cards in a standard Tarot deck. They clearly had a strong understanding of Tarot, but a poor understanding of MBTI. This is my attempt to rectify that:
Swords
King - ENTJ
Queen - INTJ
Knight - ENTP
Page - INTP
Cups
King - ENFJ
Queen - INFJ
Knight - ENFP
Page - INFP
Wands
King - ESTP
Queen - ISTP
Knight - ESFP
Page - ISFP
Pentacles
King - ESTJ
Queen - ISTJ
Knight - ESFJ
Page - ISFJ
I decided first that the suits correlated well to temperments. Swords are the suit of intellect and rationality (NT). Cups are the suit of emotion and intuition (NF). Wands are spiritual, passionate, and creative (SP). Pentacles are down-to-earth, calm, and traditional (SJ).
Queens are, by definition, inward-focused. Kings are their complement. Knights are the "teenagers" of the court cards, and tend to engage in conflict, and Pages are the children and the messengers. For these reasons, I made Kings and Knights Extroverts and Queens and Pages Introverts.
The last distinction was the J/P for the iNtuiting suits and the T/F for the Sensing suits. I went with the iNtuitive Kings and Queens being Judgers because I feel that they are more definite and authoritative than the younger court cards. The Knights and Pages are less developed and definite, more flexible. For the Sensing suits, I used similar logic to make the Kings and Queens Ts while the younger cards are Fs. Kings and Queens are less rash than Knights and Pages.
Comments? Critiques?
I was researching Tarot and found someone's attempt to attach MBTI types to the court cards in a standard Tarot deck. They clearly had a strong understanding of Tarot, but a poor understanding of MBTI. This is my attempt to rectify that:
Swords
King - ENTJ
Queen - INTJ
Knight - ENTP
Page - INTP
Cups
King - ENFJ
Queen - INFJ
Knight - ENFP
Page - INFP
Wands
King - ESTP
Queen - ISTP
Knight - ESFP
Page - ISFP
Pentacles
King - ESTJ
Queen - ISTJ
Knight - ESFJ
Page - ISFJ
I decided first that the suits correlated well to temperments. Swords are the suit of intellect and rationality (NT). Cups are the suit of emotion and intuition (NF). Wands are spiritual, passionate, and creative (SP). Pentacles are down-to-earth, calm, and traditional (SJ).
Queens are, by definition, inward-focused. Kings are their complement. Knights are the "teenagers" of the court cards, and tend to engage in conflict, and Pages are the children and the messengers. For these reasons, I made Kings and Knights Extroverts and Queens and Pages Introverts.
The last distinction was the J/P for the iNtuiting suits and the T/F for the Sensing suits. I went with the iNtuitive Kings and Queens being Judgers because I feel that they are more definite and authoritative than the younger court cards. The Knights and Pages are less developed and definite, more flexible. For the Sensing suits, I used similar logic to make the Kings and Queens Ts while the younger cards are Fs. Kings and Queens are less rash than Knights and Pages.
Comments? Critiques?