Page of Pentacles

The Page of Pentacles is the eleventh card in the suit of Pentacles. It usually stands for study, scholarship, and reflection. It can also mean news, messages and the person who brings them. If indicating a person, it will be a dark youth, a young officer or soldier, or a child.

The Page of Pentacles as depicted in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck

General description

In the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, Pamela Coleman Smith depicts the Page of Pentacles as a youthful figure looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him. The Page, always more or less of a messenger, in this case of fiery nature.

Divinatory meaning

This card will indicate a proposal of marriage, courting, love-making, but in a gentle, sometimes a poetical or platonic way, not without ardor however. It has also to do with all sorts of honorable 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.

If reversed, the card can mean: Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, and luxury. Unfavorable news.