Seeing Tarot Episode 6: The Page of Wands

Gina, would you mind giving us a brief rundown of the Page of Wands?

Absolutely.

I'm like really excited to start off this new phase of our project because we are moving from the aces and into the pages.

So if you've been listening, this is not exactly the traditional approach, which we did intentionally.

And we started with the Minor Arcana, which is a group of cards that's all about daily life.

So with the Aces, we had the pure expression of the energy, so a really nice introduction to the four major groups of the Minor Arcana.

And now we're getting into the court card sequence, which is where we talk about how to be in the world, ways that the traits and the energies of each group express themselves through us, through people.

And I am really loving that approach.

It's doing a lot for me.

And so interestingly, I do feel like I mean, as is always the case with tarot, that I'm like learning a lot throughout the process as well.

And speaking of which, the pages are all about learning.

So they're really like the introduction into like a personal relationship with the group of cards that we're working with.

So here we're talking about wands, which are the element of fire.

And the page is like the acolyte of the wands.

In all of the pages, we see these really kind of charming representations of a younger person like holding the symbol of the suit and like just regarding it with like this sort of like tenderness and excitement.

And so, you know, these are cards that are known as like the youths of the tarot.

And in the court card sequence, we go from page to knight to queen to king.

So there is this progression, this growth through our understanding of the group.

So we're beginning with fire, with enthusiastic beginner's mind energy, and really starting to hold the wand.

So it's cool that we talk about the aces, which are being presented out of a cloud.

So they're this disembodied, theoretical, heavenly type of energy.

And now here it's brought down to earth.

So like, what do we do when we learn about the element of fire and being in the world with it? So that's kind of my base kind of recap of, of the pages and specifically the page of wands.