Tarot card meanings · Wands
What does Page of Wands mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Page of Wands upright means “if followed by the Page of Cups. Has the chief qualities of his suit. He may signify family intelligence”, and reversed “Also indecision and the instability which accompanies it”.
Upright
If followed by the Page of Cups. Has the chief qualities of his suit. He may signify family intelligence.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Also indecision and the instability which accompanies it.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
In a scene similar to the former, a young man stands in the act of proclamation. He is unknown but faithful, and his tidings are strange.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Page of Wands fall in a reading?
Page of Wands belongs to the suit of Wands. 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.