Card of the Day: Robin Wood Page of Cups

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

It's interesting that I would get a court card (Pages, Knights, Queens, and Kings are court cards) for my very first card of the day, since I am absolutely terrible with court card. Court cards can represent people; they can represent a particular set of of physical traits, personality traits, a particular age group or sex, or any combination of the above, as well as standing for facets of a situation.

Cups: Emotion, feelings. Water. West. People with fair skin, light colored eyes, and dark blond to light brown hair.

Pages: A new beginning, a message or messenger. A pre-pubescent child.


This specific page represents someone who is gentle and helpful, who is studious, who is emotionally needy and vulnerable. They're artistic (See the paints hanging from her belt?) and imaginative. They like to be of service. It can refer to someone who is emotionally immature, gullible, or emotionally led. Sometimes refers to someone with androgynous characteristics. This tends to be someone who is lives very much in their imagination. This page is sensitive to the feelings of others.

Events: Can refer to pregnancy or childbirth, the beginning of a new friendship or a new, happy stage in an existing relationship, or other emotional beginnings.

My first thought when I see this card in a spread is always that it's the beginning of a new emotional phase, or a new relationship. Water can represent emotions, and she is standing on the edge of an ocean; perhaps experiencing things that she had not yet, reveling in it, really experiencing it as an artist will. The bird emerging from the cup makes me think of creative inspiration or a message of some kind. The way that the Page is standing, and the look on her face, make me think that the message, the inspiration, or whatever the bird stands for was unexpected, but not unwelcome.