The crone archetype

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I feel like the crone archetype is missing in tarot and I think it is a shame. Anyone has suggestions which cards could represent the crone energy?

Discussion

[areyouseriousthobro]

I have the medicine woman’s guidebook tarot and the moon is displayed beautifully as the grandmother’s, describing it as a card of ancient wisdom from our ancestors

[WisdomAndEffort]

There isn’t any crone archetype exactly but the Queen of Pentacles will be the closest that you get really. The Empress wouldn’t fit because it is the mother archetype.

[dancey1]

Thea’s Tarot deck 😀

[FireMysteries]

Hmmm

Maybe the Queens?

Or, in some decks (if they are presented as feminine) the Hierophant and the Hermit?

It is unusual how young the High Priestess is usually portrayed, isn’t it?

I love Danielle Noel’s decks for example but there is often criticism how the Queens are all so young. From the time the original Moonchild deck was published until now there’s been a lot of advancement in age and body diversity, so the new edition, still with 20 year old Queens is even more jarring.

The Queens are meant to be mature women.