Tarot Translator: Almanac to the Daily Kook’s. #1 “Pages”
When coming to terms with your tarot cards, the best relationship is one you can understand eye to eye. And that is a good start if anything. But I think we can all admit that we truly want to understand the “person” we’re staring in the eye. Tarot cards isn’t just one person but of many and although you’re going to have to play the class professor that memorizes over 40 student names (78 to be precise, depending on your deck), it does make the school year go by easier. Let’s begin with the Pages.
Aside from the fact that Pages are likely to come first in the Minor Arcana, they’re really like the kids that tend to sit in the front of the class; they’re all set to go, prepared, and open-minded, but why is that?
The Page of Pentacles marks “The Beginning”.
When receiving this card in the spread, we think about a man who’s ready to begin a new chapter in his life when delving into different variables of interest. What are your interests?
Financially: There’s a positive horizon in your path to launching up your career and prospects. Make use of your time, work hard, and opportunities will be emerging from your fertile soils like mushrooms in dune spring, which means you’ll have to harvest them eventually when they’re ripe for the picking.
Relationships: You’ve entered a plateau for a relationship where you feel grounded and on your feet. This is good in that you’re able to proceed into the growing process between you and that significant other. At first, this relationship may have developed out of conveniences rather than anything truly sentimental but as long as you guys are tied on a thin string, that gives you more room to learn about the person before making any other decisions.
Education: When reading into circumstances, you’re more of a realist in identifying what tools you have to your advantage in your scholarly activity. At least take time to not only acknowledge your variables, but also your setting. This will be good when undertaking new content in your work to come.
Spiritual/Self: Pay attention to the trees rather than the entire forest. There are details that need to be polished before you’re able to truly keep on with the journey at hand. Responsibilities are good to finish, but are you really in a stable position to finish them when there are obligations to yourself that you have to manage?
The Page of Swords marks “The Design”
He’s the student that uses his pencil as a weapon to manage his time carefully according to schedules, almanacs, and those handy-dandy class organizers. When engaging with this card, it really opens up to questions and reasons as to how you manage your time in the tides to come.
Financially: Create a stable background for yourself, research your fairgrounds of employment, and listen carefully. Rather than acting, this is the time to be planning and mediating between the opportunities you have in engaging with your potential work; take every detail and measure it along with the rest of them in a tasteful comparison chart. Sharpen your sword before you go out to battle.
Relationships: Take time to step back and analyze your current situation with the relationship itself. You’ve been surrounding yourself in too much of their head that you may have forgotten what’s been really going on in yours.
Education: Your collection of choices to look into throughout the learning period may either need to be refined or analyzed for better words. This gives you time to plan what the schedule’s going to be like between tutoring sessions, recreational time, or even a trip to the counselor to where your next route is if you want to engage further in your scholar activities.
Spiritual/Self: You’ll have a brighter look into the kind of foundation you’ll be facing based on a shift in focuses. This is a revaluation on your part towards your management of choices and how you want to proceed with taking care of them, and as a result you have more information to look into rather than a gloss-over.
The Page of Cups marks “The Journey”
This character is enthusiastic in her practice; the optimist really in that she doesn’t see any threat to pulling the front seat, but rather an advantage in that she’s still able to be the socialite and teacher’s pet at the same time. Creative and indulging, the Page of Cups nurtures themselves in the opportunities that come.
Financially: The budding of opportunities is in your grasp and all it takes is a little creative appeal to original idea-making. There’s a flexible way to getting more than one thing done and as long as you’re pleased with what you make out of it, as well as proud, the results will be your reward in the time to come.
Relationships: A card invoking potential, this will give you a new definition of fun and activity. Enjoying the moment is a clear way of thinking about this card as it invites much curiosities and intimacy in the adolescence of the relationship.
Education: There will be a lot of good feelings towards the motivation in creative thinking towards one’s own studies. Become open minded to your way of doing things and your environment and all should be experienced fully as it should be.
Spiritual/Self: When recognizing old habits, there will be an urge to try out new things and explore territories within yourself that you didn’t realize before. In body and mind, this is a fun experience to shimmy yourself into.
The Page of Wands marks “The Foundation”
If there’s a class leader or school president, this is your guy. They’re charismatic and dually noted with the way they’re able to manage a flexible degree to getting things done. Paired up with someone like the Page of Swords, they could definitely clean up a pig-stye.
Financially: This would be one of the good cards to receive in a spread reading as you’ll have the privilege of managing different obligations and work responsibilities that will help your status in the field in the long run.
Relationships: You’ll find yourself pleased that your expectations are being met but you might want to place your partner’s values in front of your own to truly tie up any loose ends that may untether the two of you. It’s also a nice idea in that it gives you a broader look with their angle with how you two function together.
Education: This is a self card in that you’re taking advantage of your course load, your principles, your structure in determining the knowledge you desire. Homework got lighter the second it started to feel like building on your skill rather than holding you back on busy work.
Spiritual/Self: This self development card reveals that you’ll have higher standards and ideals for your life to take swing ahead. This is a good way to restructure yourself in hopes of reaching your goals and potential outcomes.
And those are your four running up students, although I can’t guarantee all of them are straight A professionals. If these cards are downturned, then your Page of Pentacles indicator is at a rough start, your Page of Swords may face battle with a poorly prepared weapon, your Page of Cups took the wrong turn on the decisions map, and even the Page of Wands could have completely forgotten about their obligations. Whatever the case may be, your remedies are always available to you and the final project may not turn out as disastrous as you originally thought.
My short-hand notes wouldn’t have been completed if it weren't for “Around the Tarot in 78 Days”, written by Marcus Katz & Tali Goodwin. I heavily recommend this book to anyone who wants to know the explicit details in managing characters like Pages, Queens, Kings, Aces, Hermits, Priestesses, and Magicians alike. I hope this translator proves to be helpful in your tarot endeavors!
Expect more sometime in the near future,