Page of Swords

Upright

Sharp curiosity and a taste for the truth, without much tact yet. Watching, asking, learning fast.

Reversed

Curiosity turned to gossip, or cleverness used to avoid feeling.

Its element

Air — thought, language, conflict, the story you are telling yourself. Air is the sharpest suit and the one most likely to cut its own holder.

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

Every entry on this site is free, and always will be — meanings are the easy half. The hard half is what a card does in a position, next to another card, for a real question. Learn to Read is the lessons for that, plus a practice partner that critiques your interpretations — $111, once.

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