Page of Wands

Upright

Restless enthusiasm with no track record yet. The willingness to be a beginner at something that excites you.

Reversed

Enthusiasm that evaporates the moment the work starts.

Its element

Fire — drive, nerve, the thing that gets started. Fire is generous with energy and terrible at admitting when it has run out.

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.