tarot card meanings · minor arcana · pentacles
page of pentacles — tarot card meaning
- the student
The student of matter, work, money, the body, what endures: Curiosity, apprenticeship, the message arriving; the suit studied for the first time.
reversed
The page's virtue overdone or immature within the realm of matter, work, money, the body, what endures.
two philosophical anchors, cited
The beginning of philosophy · Plato, Theaetetus 155d (tr. Jowett)
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
The learner's advantage · Daodejing, ch. 64 (spirit) · after Legge
“The tree that fills the arms grew from a tiny sprout - every mastery was once a page.”
the question we would ask
What are you still willing to be a beginner at?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.