Page of Cups

Upright

A tender, unguarded openness. Messages, invitations, and a willingness to feel before you know how it ends.

Reversed

Openness that has been shut down, or feelings you're too embarrassed to name.

Its element

Water — feeling, attachment, grief, the things that move you whether or not you approve. Water finds the low ground every time.

Earth of it — the element brought down to something you can actually pick up. Pages get patronised as beginners. A beginner is just someone still willing to be wrong in public, which is more than most people manage.

Knowing the card isn't reading it

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Or read this card in your hand: the deck is all 78 drawn the way you see it above.