Your Chosen Card – Page of Swords Reversed Rider Waite Deck
When reversed, the Page of Swords uses his sharp mind in an underhanded way. He can be sneaky and cunning, and sometimes paranoid and vengeful in his behavior. Typically, he is engaged in some type of behind-the-scenes dealings that may be to the detriment of the querent. Since Swords are a suit of cutting and strife, this overturned card can be a warning of surgery or illness.
Keywords Reversed: devious, sneaky, cunning, frivolous, secretive, suspicious, detached, unpredictable, destructive, paranoid, vengeful; spying, unforeseen difficulties, unpreparedness, cutting, illness, conflict, spite, sharp words, a hurtful communication, unwelcome news, behind-the-scenes shenanigans.
Decans/Timing: Astrology associates the element Air with autumn.
Astrology: Earth of Air. The Pages (Princesses) have no zodiacal attribution but represent four types of ‘elemental’ people.
Page Of Swords: Keen Observer, Clever Spy
When Page of Swords is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If Page of Swords is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Page of Swords is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for Page of Swords using cards from the Rider Waite Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Creative Tarot: Designing my own deck, the Spolia tarot, with my amazing collaborator Jen May, a collage artist from Brooklyn, has given me a whole new understanding of the cards. You will find illustrations from our deck here in this book. The history and meaning of each card was researched extensively before it was designed, and Im very proud of the result.
Complete Book of Tarot: With tongue in cheek, in my book Tarot Beyond the Basics I compared reversed cards to reversed rolls of toilet paper. Some people prefer toilet tissue to emerge over the top of the roll and others prefer to draw it from the bottom. 20 Regardless of whether you pull your paper from the top or the bottom, each roll of toilet paper serves the same function. With tarot cards, however, being upside-down can make it harder for you to see whats going on, so you may need to adjust the card to appreciate its meaning more fully. In a similar way, a reversed tarot card in a reading may imply a need to adjust to a situation or expend extra effort to appreciate whats happening.
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Complete Book of Tarot: With tongue in cheek, in my book Tarot Beyond the Basics I compared reversed cards to reversed rolls of toilet paper. Some people prefer toilet tissue to emerge over the top of the roll and others prefer to draw it from the bottom. 20 Regardless of whether you pull your paper from the top or the bottom, each roll of toilet paper serves the same function. With tarot cards, however, being upside-down can make it harder for you to see whats going on, so you may need to adjust the card to appreciate its meaning more fully. In a similar way, a reversed tarot card in a reading may imply a need to adjust to a situation or expend extra effort to appreciate whats happening.