Rider-Waite
A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him.
Meanings
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.
Etteilla
Page of Coins
Dark Young Man, Study, Instruction, Diligence, Meditation, Reflection. Work, Occupation, Apprenticeship. Scholar, Disciple, Student, Apprentice, Amateur, Pupil, Speculator, Negotiator.
Reversed
Profession, Superfluity, Magnanimity, Luxuriousness, Sumptuousness, Splendor, Abundance, Myriad. Liberality, Kind Deed. Generosity, Charity. Crowd, Multitude. Degradation, Wasting, Pillage, Dissipation.
Paul Foster Case
Servant of Coins
The symbolism of this card suggests bondage to material conditions, but aspiration to higher things. the time-period is the same as that governed by the Ace of Coins, or the three signs of the winter quarter, ruled by Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter- Neptune.
Meanings
A young person, or either sex.
Well-dignified
Has good sense in all practical matters, is friendly to Querent and friendly in disposition generally, probably with some leaning to the occult, or a touch of the psychic in the make-up. Generous, diligent, compassionate.
Ill-dignified
Unfriendly, dull, wasteful, thoughtless, self-centered, and if interested in the occult is so only for the sake of furthering selfish ends.
Appearance
Dark eyes and rich brown hair.
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.
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