Page of Wands and Page of Cups

Enthusiasm and tenderness, both unpractised. The Page of Wands is interested in everything and finishes little; the Page of Cups is open in a way that has not yet been disappointed. Together the tradition reads two appetites at their earliest and least defended stage.

Associated with the beginning of something where neither party is being careful. Read as genuine and as untested, which are not the same as naive.

Somebody enthusiastic about work they also care about, without the experience to temper either. Frequently read at the start of a first proper job.

Neither Page is pretending. The pairing asks for the enthusiasm to be given somewhere it can survive being unreciprocated, because at this stage it will be.