SWORDS · Page
Page of Swords
Curiosity that cuts. A question, a message, a student of argument. Receive the information; do not yet appoint yourself prosecutor.
- ELEMENT
- air
- NUMBER
- Court — receive: curiosity that cuts. A raised sword, wind in the trees.
- MODE
- Receive — the news arrives
- SYMBOLS
- a young figure holding a sword upright, both hands, as if learning its weight · wind-bent trees, air already testing the student · a yellow ground, the mind's weather as landscape · a look of keenness, not of war
UPRIGHT
- +beginner's mind with an edge
- +news, a memo, a true question
- +vigilance that is not yet paranoia
- −gossip as study
- −cutting for sport
- −knowing a little and fencing with it
- IN LOVE
- A frank question, a curious approach, a bit of news. Stay a page: ask, do not cross-examine.
- IN WORK
- Research, a junior analyst energy, the first draft of a thesis. Good. Find an editor.
- IN SELF
- Your mind is waking up to a new edge. Learn the weight before you swing.
REVERSED
The question is swallowed, or it becomes a needle — silence, or a student who only knows how to prick.
- Blocked — the upright current exists and is dammed.
- Excess — the current is overplayed.
- Shadow — the unused face of the card.
Blocked Page of Swords will not ask. Excess Page is all question, no listening. Shadow Page uses curiosity as surveillance.
- PAIRS WELL WITH
- Ace of SwordsThe MagicianThe FoolEight of Pentacles
- TENSES WITH
- Page of CupsSeven of CupsThe Moon
WHAT WE WILL NOT SAY ABOUT THIS PLATE
- a young person is spying on you
- you're nosy
- say whatever is on your mind