Page of Wands: tarot card meaning

In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Page of Wands upright means: Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman. Beside a man, he will bear favourable testimony concerning him. A dangerous rival, if followed by the Page of Cups. Has the chief qualities of his suit. He may signify family intelligence. Reversed: Anecdotes, announcements, evil news. Also indecision and the instability which accompanies it.

The picture

“In a scene similar to the former, a young man stands in the act of proclamation. He is unknown but faithful, and his tidings are strange.” A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910

Upright

Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman. Beside a man, he will bear favourable testimony concerning him. A dangerous rival, if followed by the Page of Cups. Has the chief qualities of his suit. He may signify family intelligence.

Waite's additional meanings: Young man of family in search of young lady.

Reversed

Anecdotes, announcements, evil news. Also indecision and the instability which accompanies it.

Waite's additional meanings, reversed: Bad news.

In one line

A faithful messenger bringing good news. (Esbat's own summary of Waite's meaning and picture.)

Where it sits in the deck

The Page of Wands is the eleventh card of the suit of Wands, one of the 56 Minor Arcana. The other Pages: Page of Cups, Page of Swords, Page of Pentacles.

In Esbat

Esbat deals a card of the day, face down until you turn it, and holds all 78 cards in the 1910 pictures with Waite's meanings, upright and reversed. The Page of Wands can be shared as a picture. All 78 tarot card meanings.

Sources

Meanings and picture descriptions: A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1910), public domain, checked against the Wikisource transcription. Picture: Pamela Colman Smith, 1910, public domain. Like the app, this page records what the book says; it does not promise outcomes.

Last updated October 25, 2026.

Esbat: Tarot & Book of Shadows, on Google Play

A card of the day, face down until you turn it, and all 78 cards in the 1910 pictures with Waite's meanings, upright and reversed. For Android.

Get it on Google Play

Keep reading