Western Tarot symbolism
Page of Wands
The Page stands in a setting compared with the Knight's and is described as proclaiming strange tidings. The main list supplies several messenger roles, including envoy and postman. The supplementary meanings shift to a young man seeking a young woman and repeat bad news as a reversed attribution. The main description also makes some readings dependent on neighbouring cards.
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The card account
LiteraryThe Page stands in a setting compared with the Knight's and is described as proclaiming strange tidings. The main list supplies several messenger roles, including envoy and postman.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe supplementary meanings shift to a young man seeking a young woman and repeat bad news as a reversed attribution. The main description also makes some readings dependent on neighbouring cards.
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
stands in the act of proclamation. He is unknown but faithful, and his tidings are strange. Divinatory Meanings: Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy,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 95
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-P0095
- Original scan leaf
- 101
- Recorded leaf number
- 101
- Current Reader position
- 95
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Page.—Young man of family in search of young lady. Reversed: Bad news. Ten.—Difficulties and contradictions, if near a good card. Nine.—Generally speaking, a bad card. Eight.—DomesticOpen 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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