About the Pages' Journey Project
Pages can be thought of as the Fools of their suits. They represent youth, naivete, energy, curiosity, and so much more. They're the youngest of the court cards and hold high hopes for the future and for their element's potential.
Our aim is to be the Pages, always learning and striving endlessly toward the next page of our stories. We want to be a trustworthy resource for other Pages - perhaps you - to inspire you to think and learn beyond lists of keywords. That's why the apostrophe is where it is. This isn't any one person's project or effort. It's all of us together: collaborating and communicating.
The Pages' Journey is a collaborative project with the goal of providing high-quality learning and reference materials to diviners of all skill levels and backgrounds. We believe that divination is a tool that anyone can learn given time and the right resources.
We don't just want to give you the basics, either. Our ultimate goal is to help every diviner take their divination practice from beginner to intermediate. Not just rote memorization but real understanding unique to each person. We want our resources to help you form a divination practice that's effective for you, not to get you to conform to our idea of what's "correct."
No ads, no paywalls, no bullshit.
In an era of "influencers," hobby monetization, insatiable advertisement, and moral cowardice, the Pages' Journey offers an alternative. You'll never find high-priced seminars or paywalled content here. Instead, you'll find free, understandable reference materials and articles written by diviners for diviners.
All of our contributors are volunteers. We don't ask for payment for our work here, because getting paid isn't the point. Learning is.
Everything on this site is 100% free - and it always will be.
The Pages' Journey is an anti-racist, pro-queer, anti-capitalist project. We believe in supporting minorities without fear. Fascists, neo-Nazis, bigots, and those who support them - whether explicitly or by complicit behavior - are not welcome in our spaces.
Supporting the Project
If you would like to support The Pages' Journey, please share our resources. Link to our site, share our guides, and make connections with others. If you find something worthwhile here, please, share it. You're welcome to use or reuse anything you find here as long as you give credit and don't try to copy and sell our work for a profit.
We can't compete with Big Name divination companies on our own. The Pages' Journey is trying to carve out a niche in a saturated market, but we firmly believe that our commitment to putting community first makes us not only unique but worth believing in.
Thank you, sincerely, for being here and for checking out our resources. Even if we end up not being the resource for you, the fact that you've found us means we're doing something right.
This is a project by the community, for the community. That means we're always open to suggestions, criticism, and questions. Please feel free to contact Aese if you've got something to say, or if you're interested in contributing to the project.
Our Contributors
Deepest thanks to everyone who's helped make this project a reality. I appreciate you more than I can say. - Aese
Aese of Spades
Hi there! I'm Aese. I'm the project manager for this site! I wrote the HTML and CSS for everything you see here (with much help from PetraPixel's layout generator after the October 2025 overhaul!), and I own the domain. I'm also in charge of the bulk of the general copy you'll see around the site, like the homepage and this about page. I also wrote the tarot quick reference guide and several of the "basic" tarot profiles.
I've been a witch for about a decade, and I've been divining one way or another longer. My first tarot deck was a gift from a woman I'd never seen before, and who I've never seen again. She handed me a gift card to buy myself the cards after hearing me lament my lack of funds in a bookstore and disappeared. Every time I pick up a deck of cards, I think of her and the promise I made to myself to be kind with my divination.
I started this project because I got pissed off about the shoddy resources available for learning tarot and other forms of divination that are out there. Everything is either extremely basic, locked behind a paywall, full of generative AI, covered in advertisements, and/or fishes for your personal information to sell you more crap or fill your email inbox with ads. These "tools" are vehicles to drive profit and keep beginners reliant on those resources.
So, I cracked my knuckles and got to work. I can't say enough how grateful I am to my friends and collaborators for their help on this project. I couldn't do this on my own - and I wouldn't want to! I'm endlessly awed by their expertise, their viewpoints, and their generosity. They believe in this project, which makes it easier for me to believe, too. Thank you all so very much.
Outside of divination, I'm also novelist-to-be (so close to finishing my first novel, finally!), TTRPG fanatic, and watcher of anime. You can find me online in various places like Tumblr, Bluesky (when I remember I have the account, lol), Twitch, and on my own website, where I host quite a bit of my personal work.
Gratitude for Assorted Supporters
This is a shout-out to everyone who isn't a direct contributor but has lent their support and thoughts to this project (or who have asked to remain totally anonymous). In particular, I'd like to thank the Grouch for being my (Aese's) go-to for site input and sharing complaints about my HTML woes.
This also includes everyone on Tumblr who's sent questions, boosted our posts about the project, hung out in Aese's streams to chat about it, and generally expressed interest in the Pages' Journey.
And, critically, this includes a vast amount of gratitude for everyone who has asked questions in forums about HTML, CSS, website layouts, troubleshooting, and tips for building websites. An equal amount of gratitude goes to the knowledgeable and generous folks who answer those questions with clarity and kindness. And another heap of "holy shit" level thanks to the people who have built whole websites and tools to make building websites easier for inexperienced folks (like Aese, who is typing this with several resources open right now!). We literally would not be able to do any of this without that network of shared knowledge.