Card glossary › Tarot de Marseille
Page of Swords
Tarot de Marseille
Essence: A sword half drawn, a mind starting to wake up, curiosity, wanting to understand, words still being learned
General meaning
Upright
curiosityapprentice of the mindstudycautionwanting to understand
↕ Reversed: Suspicion, distrust, always on the defensive, words that attack before being attacked, clumsiness with the sword
By topic
- Love
a cautious attitudeobserving before showing what you feelcuriosity about the other personverbal courtingcaution
- Friendship
youngclever friendcurious conversationscautionnew ideastesting trust
- Family
curious son or young personquestionsa pending conversation to preparelearningprudence
- Career
apprenticeintellectual internshippreparationgetting informedprofessional curiosity
- Work
researchingpreparing an argumentapprenticereportprofessional curiosity
- Studies
curious studentresearchwanting to understandlearningpreparing the argument
- Money
learning about moneyanalysing before spendingfinancial curiosityprudencestudy
- Pets
observing the animallearning about its carecurious puppybasic trainingcaution
- Health
getting informedcuriosity about the bodylooking into symptomsrestless mindprevention
- Choices
get informed firstprepare your argumentscautionobservestudy
- Creative projects
researchdocumentationfirst ideastext sketchesexperimentation
- Creativity
first wordsbudding writingcuriosityexperimenting with ideasapprentice
The keywords for each topic describe the card upright; the reversed meaning has its own line.
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