From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
Page of Wands
Meanings
The optimist. An independent youth, full of life and unafraid of failure. An exciting journey full of new experiences. A birth notice or news of a creative project commencing.
Reversed (?)
A confused youth. Taking on too much too soon. Immaturity, inability to handle complex juggling of priorities due to lack of experience.
Description
A young man in the cap and gown of a student sits at a table reading an illuminated text. A gold and silver bell sits beside him. He holds a wand, resting it on his shoulder. Out of the window behind him is a conical tower.
Artwork
- Wand: TIZIANO, Vecellio (Titian), St Christopher, 1524, Palazzo Ducale, Venice.
- Wand leaves: PONTORMO, Jacopo, Cosimo il Vecchio, c.1520, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
- Room: BOUTS, Dieric the Elder, Portrait of a Man, 1462, National Gallery, London.
- Young man: HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger, Unknown Young Man at his Office Desk, 1541, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
- Illuminated text, bell: RAFFAELLO, Sanzio, Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi, 1518-19, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
- Window scene: POELENBURGH, Cornelis van, Amaryllis Giving Myrtill the Price, c. 1635, Staatliche Museen, Berlin.
