11. Page of Pentacles

Rank: Page
Card Title: Page of Pentacles
Esoteric Title: Princess of the Echoing Hills, Rose of the Palace of Earth
Astrological Attribution: The Element of Earth
Decans:
Dates & Timing: Throne of the Ace of Disks
Corresponding Trump: The World
Elemental Attributions: Earth (cold, dry) of Earth (cold, dry)
Elemental Combination: The Senses strengthen the Senses
Qabalistic World: Malkuth in Assiah
Translation of World: The Kingdom of Manifestation
Suit Color: Pentacles – Green
Keywords: generous, diligent, careful, courageous, preserving, thick, simple, solid, innocent, earthy, practical, young, student, reflective curious, childish, practical.
Ill-Dignified: Self-Critical, Poor Student, Stubborn, Rebellious, insecure about scholastic and financial matters, wasteful, prodigal, pitiful.

Interpretation

Temperament: Conscientious in studies & financial affairs. Determined, articulate, diligent, patient, serious, and moody.

Professions: Mental Labor, Professional Status, Scholar, Good Manager Of Money, Student, Laborer, Photographer, Boss, Producer, Regional Manager, and Headwaiter.

Message: A message about money, luck or a good, unexpected turn in health.

Meanings: Diligence. Learning career skills & skills for living. Communications about money. Contracts, Negotiations. Good for new business ventures. Letters, conversations. Good fortune. High ideals, ambition. Meetings. Employment. Mental labor. Professional status.

Reversed Interpretation

Temperament: self-critical, insecure about scholastic & financial matters, wasteful, poor student, rebellious.

Meanings: Delay in communication about business. Disappointing news about money matters. Don’t waste money. Dissipation of talents. Unreal goals. Intellectual conceit. Loss of worldly goods. Bad news. Waste. Bribery. Waste of material things. Displaying ineptitude or feeling stuck. Being without a goal, direction or motivation.

Rider-Waite Imagery

The suit of pentacles represents the Physical World, Material Matters, Health Issues and Finances. The Page is Feminine, Subtle, Interested, Fresh. Court cards can represent your personality, someone close to you and situations you find yourself in. Usually they describe all three at once.

The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)

A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him. Divinatory Meanings: Application, study, scholarship, reflection another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management. Reversed: Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.

4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana

Page.–A dark youth; a young officer or soldier; a child. Reversed: Sometimes degradation and sometimes pillage.

The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing

In the Natural Position: 4 Pages = dangerous illness; 3 Pages = dispute; 2 Pages = disquiet.
Reversed: 4 Pages = privation 3 Pages = idleness 2 Pages = society.

The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus; tr. A. P Morton, [1896]

Signification of the Four Series of Minor Arcana in the Divining Tarot

PENTACLES. Development. Money. Trade.

KNAVE. A fair child. A messenger. A letter.

The figures of the Pentacles are inverse to those of the Sceptres and Cups, and indicate all that comes from outside, from the country or abroad.

The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]

Meanings of the Cards

67. Knave of Pentacles.–A dark Youth, Economy, Order, Rule, Management; R. Prodigality, Profusion, Waste, Dissipation.

Additional Remarks

The following additional remarks may be serviceable to the to the inexperienced Cartomancer. They are chiefly taken from Etteilla.

The Court-Cards, and especially the Kings and Queens, may be taken to represent persons; in this case their additional meaning should not be read. The Swords represent very dark people; Pentacles, those not so dark; Cups, rather fair people; Wands or Sceptres, those much fairer, and so on. Many Wands together might signify feasting, many Cups lovemaking, Swords quarrelling and trouble, Coins or Pentacles money.

Where the mode of reading the cards requires that the person consulting should be represented, he should take one of the Kings to represent himself, according to his complexion. If a lady consults the cards, let her take one of the Queens; if she be rather fair, the Queen of Cups; if she be very fair, the Queen of Wands or Sceptres. If the inquirer be quite a youth or a boy, let him take one of the Knights; if a very young girl, let her take the Knave, etc. Etteilla’s plan was to take two of the Keys for Significators, that answering to the Pope for a man, that answering to the High Priestess for a woman; but I do not think this is so well. The worst of Etteilla’s system is that he so completely destroys the meanings of the Keys in his attempted rearrangement of them, as to make them practically useless for higher occult purposes.

Book "T" The Tarot

The Four Princesses are the Knaves of the Tarot Pack; The Four Princesses or figures of Amazons, standing firmly of themselves: neither riding upon Horses, nor seated upon Thrones, nor borne in Chariots. They represent the forces of the He final of the Name in each suit, completing the Influences of the other scales: The mighty and potent daughter of a King and Queen: a Princess powerful and terrible: a Queen of Queens — an Empress — whose effect combines those of the King, Queen, and Prince, at once violent and permanent; therefore symbolized by a Figure standing firmly by itself, only partially draped, and having but little Armour; yet her power existeth not, save by reason of the others: and then indeed it is mighty and terrible materially, and is the Throne of the Forces of the Spirit.

Woe unto whomsoever shall make war upon her, when thus established!

The Princesses shew opinions, thoughts, ideas, either in harmony with or opposed to, the subject.

The Spheres of Influence of the Court Cards of the Tarot Pack

THE Princesses rule the Four Parts of the Celestial Heavens which lie around the north Pole, and above the respective Cherubic Signs of the Zodiac, and they form the Thrones of the Powers of the Four Aces.

XX. Princess of the Echoing Hills; Rose of the Palace of Earth:
Knave of Pentacles

A STRONG and beautiful Amazon figure with rich brown hair, standing on grass or flowers. A grove of trees near her. Her form suggests Hebe, Ceres, and Proserpine. She bears a winged ram’s head as a crest: and wears a mantle of sheepskin. In one hand she carries a sceptre with a circular disk: in the other a Pentacle similar to that of the Ace of Pentacles.

She is generous, kind, diligent, benevolent, careful, courageous, persevering, pitiful.

If ill dignified she is wasteful and prodigal. She rules over one quadrant of the heavens around the North Pole of the Ecliptic.

  • Earth of Earth
  • Princess and Empress of the Gnomes.
  • Throne of the Ace of Pentacles.

Often the General signification of the Majority of a particular suit and of the particular signification of the either 3 of 4 cards of a sort in a reading:

  • A Majority of Pentacles Business, money, possessions.
  • A Majority of Court Cards Society, meetings of many persons.
  • 4 Princesses New ideas or plans.
  • 3 Princesses Society of the young.