What does Page of Cups mean for career and work?

Creative work, and a new idea arriving intuitively rather than by analysis.

Good for artists and for anybody whose output depends on feeling: writing, design, performance, anything where the first version has to be produced before it can be judged.

Also read literally as news arriving, often small and often welcome. In a stuck career it favours making something without a plan for it, on the grounds that the Page's method is production rather than strategy.

A message of the heart. Creative inspiration, a surprising feeling, an invitation.

Approach emotionally rather than analytically, and let yourself be a bit ridiculous. The card is specifically permissive about looking foolish, on the grounds that most of what is interesting arrives looking that way.

As a person, it describes somebody young in feeling rather than in years: unguarded, easily moved, and not yet in the habit of managing how they come across.

Emotional immaturity, moodiness, feelings expressed clumsily or not at all. Creative block. A message that disappoints.

The immaturity reading is worth handling without contempt. What it describes is a person whose feelings are running ahead of their capacity to name them, which is a stage rather than a character, and can occur at any age.

Also read for the idea dismissed as silly before it was examined. That is the Page's specific loss reversed, and it is usually self-inflicted.

Upright: sensitivity, creative message, wonder, openness, intuition

Reversed: immaturity, moodiness, creative block, bad news

• What has my intuition been saying that I keep dismissing as silly?
• When did I last make something with no purpose?