In this chapter of the tarot course we will see, The Page of Swords and its meanings. What does the Page of Swords mean in the Tarot? What does the Page of Swords card mean in love, work, money or health? What is its spiritual meaning and what does it reveal to us? What does the upside down or reversed Page of Swords card mean?
The Page of Swords in the Tarot
The Page of Swords is a card full of vitality and energy, with a lot of enthusiasm and passion for life, which must be well managed for a successful outcome.
Graphic description of the card
- The Jack or Page of Swords shows a young person standing on a mound, in the middle of rough terrain, with a large sword held in both hands.
- His attitude is energetic and firm, denoting strength and decision.
- The sky is filled with turbulent clouds and the trees in the background are evidently agitated by the air, as is the young woman’s hair. The waters behind the figure are riotous and the overall feel of the painting in this card is one of vivid, tumultuous energy.
What does the Page of Swords mean in the Tarot?
The Page of Swords in right hand position. General Meaning: The Page of Swords, like all court cards, can refer directly to you or to another person very close to you, but whether it speaks of the other person or of you, this card tells us that you are full of energy, that you have great passion and boundless enthusiasm for action in your life.
You are an impatient person who wants to start things as soon as possible, if you do a project, a trip, a specific task, if you carry out an idea you have in mind, you start everything with a great show of energy, with great dedication and with a great commitment, you put a lot of emotion and a lot of reason in what you do.
The sword cards reveal the broad domain of the intellect, however this overwhelming pace can often be stopped halfway, because the energy alone is often not enough to achieve the goal you have set, you need to include something more to continue the pace and meet your goals.
If you expect with this card an answer to something you must do, that answer will undoubtedly be to do it, to start it immediately, even though you may encounter opposition and many people may not like your idea or your project, or may not agree with the methods in which you approach things.
This should not bother you and you should listen to your instinct and go forward. Your passion and intuition is very important at this point and you must be absolutely faithful to it, as they are what will guide you and drive you forward, regardless of the opposition of others or any kind of setbacks that may arise in your path.
The Page of Swords refers to intellectual reasoning sometimes devoid of emotion. The card tells us that you will find the objective way to guide this energy because although emotion will guide you in principle, you will submit it to reason and logic and you will not do anything by pure emotion but with emotion accompanied by impeccable reasoning.
The jack tells us that you are a person of high ideals like any young person, (and young does not necessarily refer to age but a spiritual state) you are full of strong idealism, plans and goals for the future, you always feel capable of undertaking anything, without limit, without obstacles.
As we usually always find opposition to our ideas or our actions, it is very important at this point that you surround yourself with people who have similar concerns and ideas to yours, whose mental and spiritual attitude is similar, whom you can nurture with your drive or be nourished by their experiences, their knowledge and drive.
Here you should avoid people who stifle you or who question your ideas, often with absurd reasoning or unfounded fears. It is important at this time to have natural relationships with the people around you, where affinity happens spontaneously, without having to force anything to make things fit.
With these people you will undoubtedly get along well, you will understand them and they may or may not be your companions in your plan or journey, but they will undoubtedly be supportive.
Certainly as an intellectual person, you have a great sensitivity and there is no doubt that you are a person of great intelligence, and when all these ideas, capabilities and concerns come to you, they can produce great suffering if they are not brought to light, put on a board, if you can not plan and begin to develop them for your life.
It is the typical case of when we regret asking ourselves “What would have happened if…” You don’t like to come up with these questions, you want to make the attempt whatever the result.
While you are very practical and can probe and ask the right and fundamental questions for what you need, you may be somewhat inexperienced and not yet fully mature (as I said, regardless of your physical age).
So sometimes your questioning may be too severe or too constant, producing anger or rejection in others because all the time you are asking “why”, looking for the causes, trying to get explanations. You are a questioning person, but this should be put in a middle ground, where questioning does not generate a permanent conflict with others.
You have an innate ability to learn, to assimilate knowledge, in addition to physical energy you can anticipate problems, see them clearly and your ability to learn is phenomenal so you can be a great student and also in life learn from the successive things that happen to you and you see happening around you, to quickly learn and know what to do with it all. You learn at every step.
As a card of swords here there is a lot to do with communication, with the transmission of ideas. You need to communicate your ideas and your knowledge, so this card can encourage you to speak up if you need to at this time. It is a card that tells you to communicate what you feel and what you think.
But also, thanks to this great communication that you are capable of, you can be an excellent speaker, a storyteller or a writer, a person who occupies some position in some medium where you can form and communicate ideas. You may be someone who is passionate about politics, social issues or education.
The negative counterpart to this facility for communication could be that you easily fall prey to gossip and gossip. Your verbiage may not stop at the right time and make you talk too much and this is something you should watch out for and keep under control, as you may have a tendency to not keep secrets too much and this could generate mistrust in people who have entrusted you with a certain subject or secret.
The card can also warn that at this time you must be very careful to whom you communicate things, to whom you tell, what you say and why you say it, because you can provide more information than necessary, expose yourself in personal matters that can later be used against you if you overdo it. You may later regret having opened your mouth.
The card also indicates that you have always been an adult in a young body, perhaps since childhood you have had adult behaviors, thoughts and attitudes. This has logically generated benefits and opened some doors for you, but it has also generated tensions and conflicts.
Swords almost always show a scenario of conflict and situations that may be at the limit, even in some cases some violence present. It could be the typical case of a difficult adolescence where you have suffered for not fitting in, for being a little more advanced mentally than the rest. It could also be situations where you have stood up to things, whether it is a job or your own family and this has generated tensions.
Since you can remember you have had intellectual concerns, ease to discover things, an agile mind that explores and learns everything, ease to investigate and to reach the knowledge of things, but this can also have a negative charge because when we analyze the world and discover it from an intellectual level, there are many difficulties that brings us. All knowledge makes us unveil secrets and mysteries, and makes us question and rethink about the existence of everything and everything.
You may have learned over the years to make a great defense with your sword, you are able to stand up for yourself and defend yourself in any situation in which you find yourself with your great energy and the edge of your mental sword, but you can also be very aggressive with them and this is something that you must measure and learn to measure, because your intellectual power can hurt others who do not have the same intensity and capacity.
You are well aware of this power, as a young person you still want to be constantly proving this power to yourself and others, but with an adult attitude you can learn to control this power and express yourself in more constructive ways and not simply standing up to others, opposing and offering battle.
What does the Page of Swords card mean in love?
In matters of love. The Page of Swords points to mild conflict. You will need to know when to push and when to back down, many fights and arguments are not productive and are not really worth having (as long as your partner is treating you with respect.) Allow your partner to have their space. This is crucial for happiness.
If you are looking for love, don’t push beyond what you should, everything takes time and rushing things will have a negative result. Time to be patient.
What does the Page of Swords card mean at work?
As far as work is concerned. The Page of Swords signals that you may be dealing with some conflicts at work if you are currently employed. All opinions are strong and all seem to be right, both yours and others.
Try to keep a cool head and evaluate the best paths to follow, even if it is not the one proposed by you, it is time to think of the common good.
If you are looking for a job, they will probably ask you for all the documentation and references from previous jobs to make sure they make a good choice, it is nothing personal.
What does the Page of Swords card mean in money and finances?
In the area of money. The Page of Swords asks you to be careful not to assume that you know everything or have the right solution to a certain problem, i.e., don’t underestimate a situation and don’t hesitate to ask others for help if you see that there is a possibility that you don’t quite know what you are doing in relation to money matters. Don’t overextend yourself in expenses and assume that you will control or resolve everything later.
What does the Page of Swords card mean for health?
Regarding health. The Page of Swords shows that you have been living with a lot of vehemence, all you need now is rest, silence, rest, meditate, sleep well, calm, low lights, silence, silence, silence, silence …..
What does the Page of Swords mean spiritually?
If we talk about spirituality. The Page of Swords shows that you may have been ignoring your spiritual side. Even if you are very rational or skeptical looking, you should realize that there is an esoteric and spiritual side beyond that is not necessarily visible to the human eye or logical analysis.
Explore the spiritual belief systems that interest you, even if you don’t embrace them. Open your mind. If you think you’ve already opened up, look deeper and open up even more.
What does the card of the Page of Swords upside down or reversed mean?
The Page of Swords in reverse position, General meaning: When the card comes out in this position, the first thing it indicates is that you may be acting in a very hasty and impulsive manner, without stopping to analyze or using your judgment correctly.
Try to go about things one at a time instead of going about everything together, as it will undoubtedly give you much better results.
In relation to the communication referred to in the cards of the suit of swords, this reversed card may indicate that you are promising much and delivering little.
You say, but do not act according to what you say, your points of view in a clear and concise manner without aggression in a logical and rational way respecting the opinion and position of others is very possible that you also receive the same.
The card can also indicate that you are someone who “knows it all”, that you always have an answer, a knowledge, an explanation, whether you really know the subject in question or not, because you have no qualms in improvising and even magnifying things, especially if this refers to your experiences or personal stories.
You must be careful at this point because many things are easily verifiable and you could look bad later when the truth becomes evident. We are not talking here about you liking to lie for the sake of lying, but you do have a tendency to stretch things and take them a bit out of context, accommodating them to your story, to your benefit.
Another aspect of Sota is that you can be in a tricky spot, really annoying others already with your permanent questioning. Questioning is valid and perhaps very useful many times, but you seem to do it for sport, that “I don’t know what it is about but I object”, which makes you an argumentative, confrontational person and when the reason is not on your side this is very annoying for others.
This is a matter of forms and manners: It is very well that you question, criticize and even oppose, but you must go in a gentle way, arguing without violence, asking to explain and substantiate their positions.
If you do it in your confrontational way, sticking things in people’s faces, it is possible that the result will be very negative for you, since the common people do not like to confront and will run away from you, and frankly it is not nice that people run away from you as soon as they see you… Nothing good is painted in this inverted jack, but all court cards when presented in reverse, have negative characteristics.
If the card refers to a person of your close environment the characteristics described are the same, although you must be especially careful in the part of the gossip, since surely this is a person with great facility for gossip, it is not someone reliable and certainly not a good idea to have your confidence in her for certain topics. Be careful who you talk to and what things and tell her.
What does the card of the Page of Swords reversed mean in love?
In the realm of love. The reversed Page of Swords points to difficulties with communication. On the one hand, you say what you think, but often you don’t mean what you say. On the other hand, the difficulty is of both, as if they were not listening to each other, not “reading between the lines” what the words are really saying.
Things are said but each one takes them in his own way or at his own convenience, without wanting to understand what is really behind the other’s words. Anyway, these things are minor and solvable.
If you are looking for love, you should open your mind a little more and listen and try to understand how the other is, his life, his tastes, his ways. Being prejudiced will not help.
What does the card of the Page of Swords reversed mean at work?
In the work environment. The reversed Page of Swords indicates that there may be conflicts and misunderstandings, mainly due to differences of opinion. You should fight for your position but not be obstinate and recognize if another idea or opinion is more accurate than yours.
You have great energy at this time but you should not let it overflow. If you are looking for a job, adopt a humble attitude, listen and try to receive criticism with a good disposition.
What does the card of the Page of Swords reversed mean for money and finances?
As far as money is concerned. The reversed Page of Swords tells us that things are not so bad, it is not that there are pressing problems, the issue is that not even the material (money buys happiness, the saying goes) excites you at this time.
You can have a salary increase, or your partner can have one, and you can just as easily hear it raining…. it doesn’t change anything for you. Indifference, apathy and even a certain hopelessness. Money does not offer too many problems, but you are looking for answers that the economic cannot give you.
What does the card of the Page of Swords reversed in health mean?
In reference to health. The reversed Page of Swords can indicate that people are talking about your health in a way that might be exaggerated. They are concerned and you know that people always talk, especially about what they don’t know.
Don’t share information about your health if you want it to be kept private, particularly with someone you don’t know very well, as they are unlikely to keep your secret.
What does the card of the Page of Swords reversed mean spiritually?
In the field of spirituality. At this time you may be influenced by someone whom you consider spiritually better, a purer or wiser person, according to your eyes, but in reality this knowledge is superficial, it is “pure shell”, despite being a charismatic person who casts a kind of spell on others.
Therefore, be careful with the advice of the “experts in life”, those who know everything, those who are back, all that glitters is not gold.
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