Welcome to Tarot for Scholars, a resource that helps you weave the deep wisdom of tarot into your daily life and work. In each post, we offer reflections and prompts for exploring your own inner world and unlocking the unique creative power of your scholarship.
Page of Swords
About this card
A student or learner who engages in reasoning, strategy, and communication without the weightiness or erudition often associated with intellect. May take a light, witty, and curious approach to subjects or situations that is distinct from the Knight’s questing pursuit, the Queen’s embodied authority, or the King’s authoritative mastery. Drawn to intellectual stimulation and play for their own sake, the Page may display a detached or ironic attitude that resists intellectual complexity or commitment.
Other interpretations
Margy’s cards, clockwise from top left: Radiant Tarot; New Chapter Tarot; Cosmic Slumber Tarot; Shining Tribe Tarot; Elemental Tarot; Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea; Spolia Tarot; Tarot of the Spirit.
Helen’s cards, clockwise from top left: Moon & Stars Tarot; Light Seer’s Tarot; Japaridze Tarot; Canes Arcanae; Star Spinner Tarot; Muse Tarot; Tarot of Mystical Moments; Forest of Enchantment Tarot.
Questions and prompts
Think of a person who embodies Page of Swords energy to you. What do you admire about how this person reasons, communicates, or plays with ideas?
What practices or habits can help you cultivate the intellectual “lightness” of the Page of Swords as a counterbalance to the “heavy” intellectual authority required of you as a scholar?
Imagine the Page of Swords were tasked with revising your current project. What insight or advice does the Page have for you?
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Yours in scholarship,
HELEN SWORD is a scholar, poet, award-winning teacher, and founder of the WriteSPACE, an international writing community with members in 30+ countries. Her research-based books, articles, and online tools empower scholarly writers to write more clearly, confidently, prolifically, and with greater pleasure.
Visit Helen’s website here.
MARGY THOMAS is the creator of ScholarShape, a body of work dedicated to elucidating the patterns of Story-Argument across genres, disciplines, and life itself. Through services and DIY resources, Margy helps scholars use Story-Argument patterns to design their work — and to find its deeper meaning and higher purpose.
Visit Margy’s website here.
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