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 Wands
About this card
A playful and lighthearted energy that you embody anytime you’re eager to learn and explore, buzzing with questions and curiosity. The Page of Wands is a learner or messenger whose subject matter or manner is fiery in nature — instinctive, creative, warm, bright, exuberant, optimistic, uninhibited. No matter how weighty your expertise as a scholar, your process and product can be enriched by occasionally shifting into “Beginner’s Mind.” From the Page’s perspective, you can see the world with fresh eyes and a sense of possibility.
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
What do you feel curious about right now? How can that curiosity guide your scholarly work today?
Reflect on why you first became a scholar and how you came to your particular research area or field. Did youthful enthusiasm inspire the decision? If so, do you still feel that enthusiasm today, or can you recapture some of it?
Imagine your research subject through the Page of Wands’ eyes. What can you see from this perspective? What new questions does this perspective bring up 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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