Card of the Week: Page of Coins

Perseverance is laudable, but perseverance must have some practical goal, or it does not avail the one possessing it.  A person without a practical end in view will struggle to accomplish anything of worth.

The Page of Coins is a staunch believer in practicality.  Pages are generally considered the young people of the deck, but this Page is wise for her age and knows it, and is careful and pragmatic.  She is till capable of experencing the awe and mystery of new situations or technologies, and even of taking the occasional risk, but always while remaining firmly grounded in realism and common sense.

Inverted, this Page may want to show a bit of rebellion against relentless conformity.  Look for ways to shift the short-term focus without losing sight of the larger goals.

In “Amok Time” Spock is acting very unlike his normal self, showing overt displays of emotion and repeatedly redirecting the Enterprise’s course toward his home planet Vulcan.  Kirk pries out of him that as a child he had been bonded to the daughter of another family, and that his Vulcan biology is now driving him to complete his commitment to this arranged wedding or die.  At the Vulcan ceremony, the bride-to-be T’Pring exercises her right to have Spock fight for her, but selects Kirk as her champion.  Kirk agrees, before learning that the fight is to the death.  McCoy sneaks Kirk a drug that simulates his death, allowing Spock to legally win the battle, only to find that T’Pring had chosen both the challenge and Kirk as the only way to both avoid marrying Spock and to spare the life of her real love, Stonn.  Spock agrees that this was “flawlessly logical.”