Pages are also known as the messengers – they deliver a message, a positive one, that represents a solid beginning of some sort.
The Page of Pentacles, as the Light Seers Tarot explains, has a childlike quality, asks questions, is curious and adventurous, interested in the world around her. She looks carefully at her surroundings, her body, her environment and enjoys studies.
Pages represent youth and immaturity. In the Tarot de St Croix Lisa de St Croix chooses to feature her son approaching his work with youthful zeal exuberance. This Page is focused and concentrating. He is on an artistic mission, intent on capturing an image. Here, the Page, depicted in the This Might Hurt Tarot is focused and contemplating a fresh project. No matter our age fresh projects await.
“Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists. Emily was born at the beginning of the 20th century and grew up in a remote desert area known as Utopia, 230 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs, distant from the art world that sought her work.
Although Emily began to paint late in her life she was a prolific artist who often worked at a pace that belied her advanced age. It is estimated that she produced over 3,000 paintings in the course of her eight-year painting career – an average of one painting per day.
Her remarkable work was inspired by her cultural life as an Anmatyerre elder, and her lifelong custodianship of the women’s Dreaming sites in her clan Country, Alhalkere”.
Working with the Page of Pentacles
In an article entitled A Spread for Your Inner Child, Barbara Moore explains that “the page cards are perfect cards to work with when it comes to inner child work.” She says that “some of us have happy and joyful inner children, some do not. They can be wounded, angry, hurt, neglected, alone, or feel unloved. Inner child energy is very powerful and can be responsible for bad habits and self- destructive patterns of behavior”
Inner Child Spread – Working with the Page: an opportunity to journal with issues that rise up as you work with this spread.
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