Page of Pentacles definitions
The Page of Pentacles or Princess of Disks is a young woman on the brink of transformation.
Rider-Waite: Page of Pentacles
A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him.
Application, study, scholarship, reflection; another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management.
Additional Meanings: A dark youth; a young officer or soldier; a child.
Reversed Page of Pentacles
Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.
Additional Meanings: Sometimes degradation and sometimes pillage.
Book of Thoth - Princess of Disks
The characteristics of an individual signified by this card are too various to enumerate; one must summarize by saying that she is Womanhood in its ultimate projection. She contains all the characteristics of woman, and it would depend entirely upon the influences to which she is subjected whether one or another becomes manifest. But in every case her attributes will be pure in themselves, and not necessarily connected with any other attributes which in the normal way one regards as symbolic. In one sense, then, her general reputation will be of bewildering inconsistency. It is rather like a lottery wheel from which the extraction of any number does not predict or influence the result of any subsequent operation. The fruit of the Philosophy of Thelema is enjoyed, rare, ripe, nourishing and vitalizing at its highest and fullest in this meditation; for to the adept every turn of the wheel is equally probable, and equally a prize; for every Event is "a play of Nuit".
The Princess of Disks is a young woman on the brink of significant change.
Golden Dawn - Knave of Pentacles
Princess of the Echoing Hills, Rose of the Palace of Earth
She is generous, kind, diligent, benevolent, careful, courageous, preserving, pitiful.
Ill-dignified
She is wasteful and prodigal.
Mathers: Knave of Pentacles
A dark Youth, Economy, Order, Rule, Management.
Reversed Knave of Pentacles
Prodigality, Profusion, Waste, Dissipation.
Etteilla: Page of Pentacles
Dark Young Man, Study, Instruction, Diligence, Meditation, Reflection. Work, Occupation, Apprenticeship. Scholar, Disciple, Student, Apprentice, Amateur, Pupil, Speculator, Negotiator.
Reversed Page of Pentacles
Profession, Superfluity, Magnanimity, Luxuriousness, Sumptuousness, Splendor, Abundance, Myriad. Liberality, Kind Deed. Generosity, Charity. Crowd, Multitude. Degradation, Wasting, Pillage, Dissipation.
Thierens: Page of Pentacles
- TRADITION
- Dark young man, disciple, student, speculator, commercial man. Application, scholarship, study, reflexion, meditation, occupation, rule, management, news, message and the messenger himself. The reverse meanings are here for once even given as favourable for the greater part: Profession, luxury, sumptuousness, breadth, abundance, magnificence, liberality, generosity, well-doing. Also the crowd, multitude. Degradation, dissipation.
- THEORY
- The Page, always more or less of a messenger, in this case of fiery nature, on the Seventh house, as well as on the Third. The latter house is that of the disciple and the message; so here the traditional rendering is again quite correct. The seventh house explains everything that is said about application, occupation, profession, liberality, etc., this being the house of Libra, of relation. We may add, that the card will indicate a proposal of marriage, courting, love-making, but in a gentle, sometimes a poetical or platonic way, not without ardour however. It has also to do with all sorts of honourable offices and denominations and may indicate any official person in the civil service and commerce, a stationer, bookseller or editor, bookkeeper or director, appointed by the owner or patron.
- CONCLUSION
- Disciple, student, messenger, and the message, good and favourable news; a newsagent; honourable denomination, commission, news about a position or relation, contract or profession. Liberal conduct of people towards the querent. A director, directing manager, bookkeeper, assistant. Editor, bookseller. Honourable mention. Agreeable conditions in general. Application, study, reflexion, arrangement, occupation, well-doing, goodness. May denote a meeting, a committee or a board of directors.
