Page of WandsPage of Wands · As Advice
What is Page of Wands advising?
Page of Wands read as instruction rather than description. What to actually do when this card appears in an advice position.
As advice
A new passion, a message that excites, somebody bringing energy into a situation.
Explore freely. Being a novice is an advantage here rather than a liability, and the card is specific that the value is in not yet knowing the constraints.
Waite kept the medieval page, who is a messenger, which is why news and messages remain a standard reading alongside the personality.
Reversed
Enthusiasm that does not survive contact with effort.
Scattered interests and unfinished starts, or a person who is all announcement and no delivery. The tradition is not contemptuous about this; it is a stage, and most people pass through it.
The useful diagnostic is what happens at the first tedious part, because that is where this Page reliably goes quiet.
Keywords
Upright: enthusiasm, exploration, news, free spirit, beginner
Reversed: scattered, unfinished, all talk, lost interest
Journal prompts
- What am I curious about that has no practical justification?
- What have I started and abandoned more than once?
Draw it for yourself
Reading about a card is not the same as drawing one. A single-card reading takes about a minute and answers your question rather than a general one.