🌱Your inner teen needs to talk asap!
This week, the Page of Swords wants us to get curious.
Welcome to the Greenhouse 🌱 where we plant seeds for the week ahead with a tarot reading, a digital altar, and more! Consider this your digital quiet place to exhale, read, and nourish your busy lil brain to ground you for the upcoming week. Maybe we’ll bask in the sun a little, too (wearing SPF, of course!) So if you haven’t already, please consider upgrading your subscription!
This week’s seed 🌱: Take the rational mind off the pedestal
The compost 🪱: The Page of Swords
When first studying the tarot, I had a hard time grasping the vibe of the Page. It didn’t matter what teachers, books, or the internet said about them; I just couldn’t latch onto their energy. One day, randomly, the light bulb finally went off in my head. The Page is my inner teen.
I don’t know about you, but when I was a teenager I was awkward, insecure, idealistic, impatient, and curious. I felt pressure, from the way I was raised and from cultural conditioning, to show up a certain way that didn’t always feel authentic to me. I saw life in binaries: right and wrong, this or that, yes or no. My emotions led me to extreme thoughts and behaviors. My inner dialogue skewed perfectionistic and self-centered.
I think this was all probably pretty developmentally normal (right? … right?!); it’s aging out of this that takes work, discipline, and commitment. That is the work of the Page: to help transition us from this youthful purity and naiveté to deeper self-actualization through discipline and commitment.