Western Tarot symbolism
Page of Cups
The Page studies a fish that rises from the cup to look back at him. The prose explicitly reads this encounter as pictures of the mind taking form and associates the card with reflection, study and messages. The supplementary list supplies favourable augury but also a young man unfortunate in love; its reversed meaning gives obstacles. These do not simply repeat the main list's assignments.
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In the sources
The card account
LiteraryThe Page studies a fish that rises from the cup to look back at him. The prose explicitly reads this encounter as pictures of the mind taking form and associates the card with reflection, study and messages.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe supplementary list supplies favourable augury but also a young man unfortunate in love; its reversed meaning gives obstacles. These do not simply repeat the main list's assignments.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
a fish rising from a cup to look at him. It is the pictures of the mind taking form. Divinatory Meanings: Fair young man, one impelledOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 109
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0109
- Original scan leaf
- 115
- Recorded leaf number
- 115
- Current Reader position
- 109
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Page.—Good augury ; also a young man who is unfortunate in love. Reversed: Obstacles of all kinds. Ten.—For a male Querent, a good marriage and oneOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 150
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0150
- Original scan leaf
- 156
- Recorded leaf number
- 156
- Current Reader position
- 150
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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