Western Tarot symbolism
Page of Pentacles
A youthful figure looks intently at the pentacle over his raised hands and is described as unaware of the surroundings. Study, scholarship and reflection appear beside an alternative reading of messages and management. The additional list assigns a young officer, soldier or child alongside a period complexion category. Its reversed degradation or pillage differs from the main reversed account of extravagance and unfavourable news.
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The card account
LiteraryA youthful figure looks intently at the pentacle over his raised hands and is described as unaware of the surroundings. Study, scholarship and reflection appear beside an alternative reading of messages and management.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe additional list assigns a young officer, soldier or child alongside a period complexion category. Its reversed degradation or pillage differs from the main reversed account of extravagance and unfavourable news.
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
looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him. Divutatory Meanings: Application, study, scholarship,Open 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 137
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-P0137
- Original scan leaf
- 143
- Recorded leaf number
- 143
- Current Reader position
- 137
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Page.—A dark youth ; a young officer or soldier ; a child. Reversed: Sometimes degradation and sometimes pillage. Ten.—Represents house or dwelling, and derives its valueOpen 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 152
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-P0152
- Original scan leaf
- 158
- Recorded leaf number
- 158
- Current Reader position
- 152
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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