Tarot Of The Week – Page Of Wands

 

The Page of Wands has a passion for life, despite the fact (or maybe because of the fact) that he is still a child and his understanding of the world is not yet complete. He is a free spirit, not weighed down by the burdens of the material world, coming and going as he pleases, usually bringing change along for the ride. He is the catalyst that provokes changes that might be impossible in any other situation. When his energy enters your life it may manifest in one of three ways: as a person around you, as an event that you will experience, or as a part of yourself that you must bring to the fore.

Only rarely is an external event signalled by the Page of Wands. He does act as a herald for the same activities as the other pages; the arrival of good news and the birth of children, for example. And in those cases he is a very good sign, particularly in the latter case because of his association with creation and conception. But the event he usually symbolizes is a different type of conception, the conception of an idea. The Page of Wands represents the brief creative spark that comes to you, suddenly and unexpectedly, and that starts you down the road of a new creative vision. Your life will never be the same once he comes into it.

Sometimes this spark will appear in your life as a person who embodies the physical or mental qualities of the Page of Wands. Such a person often has a vivid and childlike imagination, though they may neither realize it is there or know how to develop it for creative purposes. As such his ambitions are high but not unattainable; he will challenge himself but he will probably not overstep his limits unless pushed to do so. As a Wands card, ethics are always high on his list of priorities. He accepts change because he is the agent of change, the catalyst and the creative visionary. He is also a faithful lover with almost unlimited passion and enthusiasm.

There is, of course, a Page of Wands lying within each of us waiting for a chance to manifest (if it is not doing so already!). When he does appear in your life it often comes at a time when you need his passion for life and his total fearlessness. His greatest power, in fact, is the power to deal with fears by facing them and seeing them for what they are. The light of his inner fire can expose the dark demons that you have been so afraid of, and show you that what you were running from was yourself all along. Once you see that your fears are nothing but parts of you, you can integrate them into yourself and grow stronger. Leave your fear behind and you'll be surprised how much freedom you'll win.

Hmm an interesting card, after last weeks where I was told effectively to hurry up and wait and after the week that I have had, with a few lovely surprises in it.  Things are evolving, not sure if it’s to where I want them to be but am certainly feeling my life is at last once more under my control.  I’m done with grieving for a future I should have had and instead I am making a new future, but more details on that another day.

Right now is the time for action, much of my present I love, there is much though that has to be changed and it will be.  I am seeing opportunities for a new life that for now I have to aim towards, day by day, by changing myself, challenging myself, pushing myself forward.  I am forming ideas, but this encourages me that I was on the right track.   There will be set backs, there will be times I will want to throw it all in, but at the end of the day if by the end of 2010 I am to have made it where I want to be in my life then I am taking these knocks, learning from them and becoming stronger day by day,  I will be a very happy new year.

I find it no coincidence that this card should come on the first reading of the new year, but yet another encouraging sign, that this indeed is my year, the year the Gothic Gentleman makes his dreams come true, not just for me, but for those who have faith in me, for those who believe some things about my future that is positive I want to prove them right, for those who wish me harm or think I am living in a fantasy world that can’t be real, I want to prove them wrong!