Page of Swords - Earth of Air

Page of Swords

Earth of Air

There is a beauty in those 

that have the ability to think above the rest.

The Page of Swords is:

Fast: With room to fly, this page is quick minded, bright and full of ideas. From the ground up, watch as his childlike dreams take flight.

High: As on a mountaintop; this page has the ability to rise to the steepest of heights, receive his message, then share his good news on a level equal to you.

Crumble: "Behind my smile is a hurting heart | Behind my laugh, I'm falling apart | Look closely at me and you will see, the girl I am... isn't me." | Created by: WildRose / SnowDrop

Your Focus Needs a Backup Plan

Affirmation: 

"With every breath out, my mind becomes clearer and I can see what is in front of me." 

Around the Tarot in 78 Days

To confirm my understanding of the role the PoS has within my tarot lessons, I decided to pull a companion card, in which I pulled the VII of Swords. At first glance it seemed the two ideas conflicted, but I just recently learned about shifting the positive/concept in what may seem a challenging or negative card.

While the PoS is about clarity, decisiveness and swiftly moving forward with focus... VIIoS is more about finding alternative paths and keeping an open mind when things aren't as focused or clear as you'd like them to be. Basically, it supports having a back up plan.

The lesson?

Clear Thought + Focused Decision = Dynamic Outcome

When you have your mind set on something, do you allow for alternate considerations?
Does the idea of going with the flow frighten you?

Page of Swords and His Elements

"But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. 

Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know."

Charlie Sheen 

Interestingly enough, I danced around the idea of making Charlie Sheen my PoS in rev., in the end, he was just to old, to much experience, his life a little more traveled. In theory many of the prinicples run true with his persona, addiction, enormous talent, boredom, gossip, spiteful, mean. When in his mood, he definitely can definitely display bully behaviour.

You can't focus if you're asleep. The Page of Swords tells us to wake up and focus. Keep a sharp eye on what is in front, beside and behind us. Blade pointing forward, it is an excellent card to pull when wondering if you're in the right direction. Slice your way through the debris of messy thoughts, trust your instinct, and move forward on a path you create. PoS has a hint of independence, an individual journey maker with apt, ability and intelligence. Just be mindful of downtime, and activity that seems or feels beneath you as you may fall into the trap of idle hands. The PoS is a time of learning and being the vigilant student, which really can be for any age. Know what you're getting into before you move forward, because there is nothing worse than being hit in the face by a branch that snaps back.


Find yourself face to face with a gossip hag, or maybe you yourself have an issue with loose lips? No worries, a sliver of Slippery Elm will help you manage your tongue, and/or keep you out the slimy words of others. Historically used to help with diarrhea, I guess it can't help but 'heal' Nasty Nancy's verbal diarrhea.

Elemental Note: Slippery Elm is of Air and ruled by Saturn

Magick Note: Tie a few leaves with a yellow cord or string and burn it off to ward any ill words against you.

Heal the World: Did you know Eastern Canada lost over 700,000 elms due to Dutch Elm disease? B.C and Alberta remain the only provinces to be free of the disease.

Lepidolite, a "stone of transition" is perfect for PoS as it is a crystal that encourages independence, achieving goals, concentration and objectivity. It helps with making speedy decisions, a quality that PoS is known for, and why people will go to him for leadership and guidance. Focusing on the necessary, Lepidolite, like the the sword, cuts through the BS and gets to the point. A calming stone, it frees you from the influences and voices of others, immunizing you from outside hurts and negativity.



How would you use these elements in an alter offering?
Where would you place Lepidolite on a child suffering from gossip?

)o(

Love and Light,
Amand

Holding a Sword by It's Blade ~ A Tarot Journey

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.   Carlyle, Thomas - See more at: http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3991/#sthash.AlWDGLWU.dpuf

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.   Carlyle, Thomas - See more at: http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3991/#sthash.AlWDGLWU.dpuf

"It is the unseen and the spirit in people that determines the outward and the actual"

Thomas Carlyle

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.   Carlyle, Thomas - See more at: http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3991/#sthash.AlWDGLWU.dpuf

I can't move forward. I'm stuck. Am I surprised? No, I've been playing in the Page of Swords in Reverses' sandbox. For now we'll just call her Nasty Nancy.

Nasty Nancy and I have been friends for as long as I can remember. I've always had an attraction to strays, maybe, in away, I've always kind of felt like a stray ?!? I think I just had a real time #magickmoment

I feel like a stray. How powerful and potentially life changing. The admittance of it, heavy in my belly, with an 'of course' stuck in my throat. Interesting. Another blog for another day.

The deck I am working with and learning from is the one for me as I so relate with the images. Nasty Nancy and I share one really bad habit. Saying we're going to do one thing, and doing something else. Something that doesn't necessarily get in the way, but it doesn't move us forward. In fact, I am very good and saying I'm going to do the same thing over and over and over again, but I will find a million different things to do which get in the way of doing what I want. With a bolt of lightnening over my shoulder, it could very well be that I'm afraid. Afraid of following the direction I'm pointing at with my sword. It's almost like holding the sword by it's blade instead of it's hilt and wondering why the hell am I bleeding all the time.

If I held on to my words properly, I'd avoid having to self medicate all the time, which in my case is finding something else to do. What a vicious cycle.

Like the mushrooms Nasty Nancy likes to play with... you know you're not supposed to eat them, but why not when they make you feel so good? Why not say I'm going to do this that or the other? It makes me feel like I'm important, like I'm successful, like I'm the one on top... literally. But boy when the buzz of the 'shrooms wear off, and you need to eat the words you let come out your mouth... It's a quick and painful crash, driving you to look for that next high, that next excuse, the next whatever you can grasp (the wrong side of the sword). That way when someone asks you how it's going, you have your reason, excuse, sob story. Basically your lie ready and bleeding.

The sword and lightening also remind me that Nasty Nancy believes in a bright and shinny future, but she just can't let go of that dark and stormy past. The thunder rolls in faster and is more powerful than the sun. [Insert I for she] There are moments where I know where I need to be and what needs getting done. Yet within a split second I'm cursing someone out, blaming someone for where I am, and desperately looking for a fight. And trust me, I am literally holding the sword with both hands as I aim at my opponent. Figuratively, I'm holding the damn thing straight at my spirit, reminding it to stay inside and back off.

I call this Spiritual Cutting. I'm am not one for physically hurting myself. But, slashing and thrashing at my Spirit? All day long... no one can see it, therefore, I am alone in the shame and agony of not having the confidence I once had. (If you've been paying attention, you'll see how I just Nasty Nancy'd).

Photo via fantasticalcreatures.com

We teach our children everyday not to play with sharp objects, and yet, here we are with a Page of Swords swinging at heart's content. Without the emotional skill and maturity... how on earth do we expect this little friend to carve an appropriate path? Nasty Nancy just wants to play, by her rules... and we've given her a very sharp object to play with. Someone is going to get hurt. Obviously. Not so obvious is when Nasty Nancy herself is going to hurt herself.

It may be why I liken this card to Lindsay Lohan. So talented and able... with access to whatever she wants. If the maturity wasn't there, what did we think would happen? As compared to our Karate Kid, the outcome could have been the same. If a young spirit is trained in martial arts, he must be nurtured and educated. Taught that his skill is his tool instead his weapon. Lindsay's talent is a weapon. Nasty Nancy's sword is a weapon. The ego of my past is my weapon.


In each case, there is a shelter. Within that shelter, Nasty Nancy will either create an Ivory League setting for learning... or a shelter of mass destruction with consequences she is to young to comprehend. I'd like to think that my shelter still has a line drawn in the sand between both worlds where I'll eventually make a permanent cross over from the dark side )o(

Love and Light,
Amanda

Do you have a bad habit that you carry by the blade?
Do you get caught up in saying one thing and doing the other? What drives this behaviour, avoidance or frustration?
 

Page of Swords? Try again!

Around the Tarot in 78 Days ~ The Page of Swords

So I really thought I figured this one out. As it turns out, not so much. I learned a lesson though, when journeying through tarot, it is your journey to make, not someone else's. They may have good ideas, especially when you feel like you've done everything you can to figure something out and they come up with what seems a plausible answer within seconds. It is well worth your time to take in the advice/offer/insight. Ultimately though, it is a better use of your time if you exhale and wait until you feel the answer in your gutt.

Prince William? Totally made sense... and then it didn't. And then it did ~ and then it didn't. You know the cycle. We've all been through it, and when we're good done and tired of going through it, we whole heartily embrace it.

And then one day, while you're in the shower and you go to turn the heat up, and a spider crosses your hand, you have a #magicmoment and there in your minds eye is Jaden Smith as 'Dre Parker' AKA The Karate Kid. Yes, you are allowed to have your "of course"... I know I did :)

For my own reasons, I am leaving my older post up as it is a lesson. Spirit always has a reason... I'm sure I'll figure it out soon enough.  In the meantime, I've re-posted my understanding of the Page of Sword's in effort to justify my own flip flop on this one. First thing I noticed was my original opening sentence... yes another #magicmoment

*Let's take a step back and assess the situation*

The Page of Swords brings wonder and opportunity. Big ideas and full of life, PoS is captivating and always very ready share what he knows. Always ready to learn more, and make a difference he is also a very social little friend.

As I breathe in his image and exhale the spirit that comes to me, I know him as Michael, a young leader. Someone that people will come to and follow. Not blindly, because he is thorough and smart. Even though he has a quick and youthful energy, he is organized, calculated. Michael will always be asking 'what to do I need to do, what do I need to know'.

Prepared and trained, Michael is not necessarily one of those 'natural talents'. His successes are earned because he focused on and found a way to achieve them. What I like about Michael is that he is already learning the importance of 'working smart not hard'.

A few keys words associated with PoS: Diplomacy, vigilant, observant, logical, intelligent, loyal and thoughtful. As with all pages, travel is another aspect to consider.


Dre is a social chatty little kid, always asking why and relentless when waiting for an answer. He is willing to keep coming back to learn, even if it seems silly in the beginning, he has enough sense to know he needs to stick it through in order to 'see'. He's a sweet, generous, and smart boy, who loves his friends, his master and most importantly his mother. He has his PoS in rv moments, but he's young, full of spirit, and has a solid understanding of what is right.

Memorable Quote: 

Dre Parker: Be kinda hot if I won this thing, huh, Mr. Han?

Mr. Han: Be kinda hot if you focused.

Dre Parker: Yeah, well, after that.

)o(

Love and Light,
Amanad

Is Lindsay Lohan the Page of Swords in Reverse?

I saw this style on another blog, and I wish I could find it back so I could credit how I'm going to move forward with with my journey through Tarot. It was such a unique and fresh way to look at Tarot, without having to read the same hum drum, eon'ic descriptions found everywhere else. Although this concept is not mine, I love it, and hope you do too.

I am the Page of Swords in Reverse. I am very good at making your business mine. You might call me gossipy, but you'd be surprised how many people come to me when they want to be in the know. Don't give me deadlines, I'll get it done when I get it done... if I feel like it. It's not that I'm incapable or dim witted. In fact, I know I am quite the opposite. How else do you think I can get away with promising something, not doing it, and making it look like it was someone else's fault for not getting done?

When you're expecting a commitment from me, don't turn your back. You can't say I didn't warn you, but I'll be off and gone in the other direction the minute you're not watching me. If I must, I will hang out, but I can pretty much guarantee you that you'll send me out the door soon enough. You think I'm whining, I think I'm being assertive. If you can't handle me asking why, then don't bother asking me to 'do' either! I have better things to do. Things that have nothing to do with you and everything to do with me.

I'm sorry did I hurt your feelings? You shouldn't have been in my way to begin with. What's happening this weekend by the way? Why? Because I wanna know, and you should tell me. I just made it my business. You'll regret not telling me... you shouldn't have crossed me. I know people.

You will most likely never see me work with diligence. If I can't somehow get someone else to do it, it doesn't need to be done. I'm talented enough and smart enough to make things happen, and if you can't see that, then I don't need you! Surprised how well I pulled that last one off? That's right, I told you. I'm pretty good at what I do, when I do it on my own time.

If I'm late, it's because I had something better to do. If I didn't finish what I started, it's because I got something better to work on. If I'm irritable, it's probably you stressing me out. I don't have a problem with or issue with substance, it helps me be creative. And remember? It's none of your business, so back off.

Lindsay Lohan
Photo: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic

Lindsay Lohan could have been (and who knows maybe she still can be) one of the best. She knows it, industry knows it. Creative and smart, she is also the dullest of spoiled brats with issues that just seem so passé of her know. Always sarcastic, critical and finger pointing of everyone, LiLo is as devious and disrespectful as they come. And yet, she is at her best when taking the blame off herself and placing it on everyone and everything in her destructive path. Constantly challenging the law, employers, family and friends, LiLo is a know it all who seems to be caught dead centre in Hollywood gossip. She's so good at being miserable, one can actually feel empathy for her... until you are reminded how smart and talented she really is. Rehab 23 times? Such a waste. It's a shallow and unfortunate game she's playing. We can only hope the girl doesn't someday land on her own sword.

Prince William as the Page of Swords

Around the Tarot in 78 Days ~ The Page of Swords

*Lets take a step back and assess the situation*

The Page of Swords brings wonder and opportunity. Big ideas and full of life, PoS is captivating and always very ready share what he knows. Always ready to learn more, and make a difference he is also a very social little friend.

As I breathe in his image and exhale the spirit that comes to me, I know him as Michael, a young leader. Someone that people will come to and follow. Not blindly, because he is thorough and smart. Even though he has a quick and youthful energy, he is organized, calculated. Michael will always be asking 'what to do I need to do, what do I need to know'.

Prepared and trained, Michael is not necessarily one of those 'natural talents'. His successes are earned because he focused on and found a way to achieve them. What I like about Michael is that he is already learning the importance of 'working smart not hard'.

A few keys words associated with PoS: Diplomacy, vigilant, observant, logical, intelligent, loyal and thoughtful. As with all pages, travel is another aspect to consider.

To me the description above is so fitting for Prince William. Watching him as a boy, he had that social innocent chattiness about him, but you could see that he also lived in his head. Very different than his rowdy little brother ;) His endeavors in charity allow for others to want to follow him. He has a generous spirit and noble heart, is well educated, and just kinda seems like that kind of guy that calculates how far the fall before he jumps. He's seen a lot, been through even more, and has come out steady and sensible.

I like Michael, the Page of Swords. He's one of those kind souls that you're ever so lucky to sit beside on the plane and learn a lot from and have a good laugh with. You walk away from him thinking to yourself, I just met the coolest guy!

)o(

Love and Light,
Amanda

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