Page of Swords

The Page of Swords is curiosity with a blade. Sharp, questioning, watchful and not yet skilled: the one who asks the question everyone else was avoiding, sometimes usefully and sometimes not.

Curiosity, new ideas, information gathering. Ask the questions. Vigilance and a fast mind. Study something new.

Gossip, cynicism, all-talk. Scattered thinking. Or information used carelessly, sharing what should have been held.

Communication in an early stage. Lots of talking, unclear substance. Reversed, gossip or an untrustworthy account of events.

Research, learning, junior analytical work. Someone alert and unproven. Reversed, half-understood information presented confidently.

Researching before acting. Learning the basics.

Questioning inherited belief. Intellectual honesty as a practice.

Mental restlessness. Researching symptoms, usefully or otherwise.

A young figure stands on a windswept ridge holding a sword upright in both hands, looking sideways rather than ahead. Clouds race and birds scatter. He is braced for something he has not identified.

Golden Dawn made the Pages the earthy part of their element. The wind in this card is the strongest in the deck: Smith used weather consistently across Swords to signal mental turbulence.