Pamela Colman Smith · RWS deck
The Minor Arcana
Page of Wands
Nefesh in Atziluth
- Suit
- wands
- Rank
- Page
- World
- Atziluth
- Soul level
- Nefesh
- Position
- Up 3
Nefesh, the living body-soul
Nefesh is the soul as it animates the body: appetite, instinct, energy and the drive to stay alive. A Page is that level at work in one world. The Page of Pentacles is at home. The other three reach upward, one, two and three worlds from home.
Upright
Flowing. The Voice heard in the body first, as restlessness or hunger before it is understood. This is the lowest level reaching for the highest world, and it does so without language, through a restlessness the body cannot account for.
Misdirected. Craving the experience of the numinous rather than the Voice itself.
Reversed
Blocked. The body does not register the call and nothing stirs.
Flooded. Restlessness with no object, unable to settle.
The image
A young man stands in a dry landscape with pyramids behind him. His tunic is covered in salamanders. He holds a wand upright and looks at it as though he has only just been given it.
Learn how to read Page of Wands in a spread
This page shows you what Page of Wands means. Knowing how to read it — how it shifts next to the other cards, what the reversal is really telling you, and how to turn a spread into a clear answer — is what the RWS Decoded course and book teach, card by card.
