Welcome to My Tiny Tarot Practice. I'm Amelia Hruby, and on this podcast,

I share my journey exploring the tarot card by card, starting with each suit of the minor arcana.

Today's card is the Page of Cups.

In the Rider-Waite-Smith edition of the tarot, the Page of Cups features a person

standing with one hand on their hip and one hand holding a cup,

And in that cup, there is a fish.

And the fish is looking at the person.

The person is looking at the fish. The person has this sort of like blue hat and wrap on

that I've always thought looked a little bit like a wave. They've got on a tunic that is blue and pink

and has flowers on it.

They're standing in front of the ocean, maybe on a beach.

As I look at this card, I can't help but think of what my partner said when they first saw it.

One of the first times that we read tarot together, they got this card and they immediately exclaimed,

look, it's the twink of fish.

And that is what I think of every single time this card comes up in a reading now.

In many interpretations of the tarot, the page of cups is seen as a budding love

or a sign that a new love might come into your life or that you might find your muse.

The court cards are often interpreted as representing people.

And so sometimes we will see these interpretations where the cards are lended a more like prophetic nature

and we're told that they represent human beings who are going to come into our lives

or who are already in our lives.

I tend to think of the court cards less as other people and more as different versions of ourselves.

I think that with the Suits of Tarot, after we make it from the Ace to the 10,

and we've gone on this developmental progressive journey, with the court cards, we're invited to see

these key moments, these stages in that development.

Or perhaps it's more that the.

Numbered cards represent moments and the court cards represent versions of ourselves

that we encounter in the journey of the meaning of the suit itself, which in cups is going to be

emotions, spirituality, psychic abilities, unconscious and subconsciousness.

And so with the page of cups, I think we see our most childlike emotional self.

I love how Jessica Doerr in Tarot for Change reads the page of cups as our sensitive inner child.

When we enter the world as infants, as children, our relationship to our emotions is often

really different than it is when we're adults or at later stages in our lives.

And with the page of cups, perhaps we're invited to re-engage that inner child, to

reconnect with the more sensitive, tender parts of ourselves and to learn from the wisdom that they hold.

I think that we can learn a lot from the simplicity of the rawness of our feelings sometimes.

As we get older, I often hear people say that their feelings are so complicated or confusing

or challenging, but what if they were just simple invitations? Simple arrivals? Things

that we could notice? The page of cups, to me, feels like a messenger arriving with a

feeling. Perhaps the fish is a feeling in this cup. We're invited a little bit into

the absurdity of it all, right? We're talking to a fish. That reminds me of the movie Big

directed by Tim Burton that has this sort of like larger than life fantastical character.

And in that movie, there's a whole plot line of distinguishing fantasy from reality. But I think

with The Page of Cups, it's a little more like, what if our fantasies just are our reality? And,

perhaps our utmost inner reality is our feelings. Thank you so much for listening to my tiny tarot

practice. If you'd like to reference any of the books that I mentioned in this episode,

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As always, I'm so glad that you took a few moments to spend time with me and the Page,

of cups. I hope that you too might now think of this card as the twink of fish, and I wish you a wonderful day.