Court cards used to confuse me all the time. I ended up making spreads just to understand them better. What helped was connecting them to elemental combinations. I have this spread where each position is a different court energy. In my system (mostly from Thoth/Golden Dawn), each court card has two elements working together. Like the Queen of Swords is Water and Air combined. I made a spread called ‘The Court Council’ where I lay out all 16 courts to see which energies are strongest in a situation.
The ranks follow a pattern I use a lot: Knights/Kings bring raw energy (Fire energy, no matter the suit), Queens hold and nurture their element (Water energy), Princes/Knights actively work with their element (Air energy), and Princesses/Pages are the potential, the beginning stages (Earth energy).
The astrological stuff helps when I’m doing zodiac spreads, I can pull specific courts for different signs. But honestly, I just started seeing them as actual personalities in my spreads. Now when I do readings about relationships or group dynamics, I often use court card positions since they work well for the people involved.