tarot card meanings · minor arcana · wands

page of wands tarot card, original ink-line art

page of wands — tarot card meaning

  • the student

The student of will, action, creative drive: Curiosity, apprenticeship, the message arriving; the suit studied for the first time.

reversed

The page's virtue overdone or immature within the realm of will, action, creative drive.

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.