Tarot card meanings · Swords
What does Page of Swords mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Page of Swords upright means “Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination, and the qualities thereto belonging”, and reversed “what is unforeseen, unprepared state”.
Upright
Authority, overseeing, secret service, vigilance, spying, examination, and the qualities thereto belonging.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
What is unforeseen, unprepared state.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A lithe, active figure holds a sword upright in both hands, while in the act of swift walking. He is passing over rugged land, and about his way the clouds are collocated wildly.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Page of Swords fall in a reading?
Page of Swords belongs to the suit of Swords. 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.