"Tarot Card - Page of Jade"
Giclee print, in limited edition of 25
8.5" wide x 11" tall
Available - 15.00
This card is the Page of Jade, which corresponds to the Page of Pentacles in the standard tarot. A young man stands in a library filled with books, contemplating a large jade in his hands. He is crowned with a monkey headdress, on whose cheeks is the tricolored symbol of the plowed and fertile field. Monkey's are symbolic of artistic endeavor, scribes, knowledge, wisdom, and learning, in honor of the Monkey gods who at the beginning of time invented the arts of the scribe. He wears the wide white belt of scribes, and has inserted into the back of the belt the large scrolled cloth also symbolic of scribes. He is adorned with costly jades, holds a book in his hands, and stands before a low table on which the tools of his trade are spread. The book is marked with the the sign One Rabbit, and the mystical number of completion, 52.
This card, like all the pages, is symbolic of new beginnings and the initial stages of a creative project. It denotes an individual dedicated to knowledge and wisdom, a person of scholarly interests and artistic inclinations. This card refers to dreams and the desires and abilities to pursue these desires in the material world, although it refers to the early stages - the beginnings of such projects, and not to their final achievements. The page is enthusiastic, naive, inexperienced, willing to take chances, open and generous.