Tarot card meanings · Pentacles
What does Page of Pentacles mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Page of Pentacles upright means “messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management”, and reversed “Prodigality, dissipation, liberality. luxury; unfavourable news”.
Upright
Messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Prodigality, dissipation, liberality. luxury; unfavourable news.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Page of Pentacles fall in a reading?
Page of Pentacles belongs to the suit of Pentacles. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.