Eight of Pentacles
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Sun in Virgo
Lord of Prudence
Charles Dickens: "He did each single thing as if he did nothing else."
The suit of Pentacles represents the element earth. This is the suit through which we can appreciate what we have been given and it shows how we experience the external world.
Pentacles can represent money matters, resources, security, material concerns, prosperity, wealth, service, status, and physical experiences in the body.
The eight represents a yin energy associated with personal power, advancement, reaping the harvest, material gain, regeneration, setting new priorities, new ways forward, re-organization, control. You will reap what you have sowed.
Lord of Prudence
Charles Dickens: "He did each single thing as if he did nothing else."
The suit of Pentacles represents the element earth. This is the suit through which we can appreciate what we have been given and it shows how we experience the external world.
Pentacles can represent money matters, resources, security, material concerns, prosperity, wealth, service, status, and physical experiences in the body.
The eight represents a yin energy associated with personal power, advancement, reaping the harvest, material gain, regeneration, setting new priorities, new ways forward, re-organization, control. You will reap what you have sowed.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies.
Divinatory Meanings: Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage.
Reversed: Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. It may also signify the possession of skill, in the sense of the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.
Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Eight: A young man in business who has relations with the Querent; a dark girl.
Reversed: The Querent will be compromised in a matter of money-lending.
Divinatory Meanings: Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage.
Reversed: Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. It may also signify the possession of skill, in the sense of the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.
Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Eight: A young man in business who has relations with the Querent; a dark girl.
Reversed: The Querent will be compromised in a matter of money-lending.
Upright
Craftsmanship.
Attending to details.
Prudence.
Satisfaction in attending to details.
Practice makes perfect.
Becoming a specialist in your field.
Slow, steady work.
Someone who is skilled with his hands.
Hobbies and interests turn into a profitable endeavour.
Card of the second time around apprentice.
Profit.
New success.
Discipline and focus.
Satisfaction in attending to details.
Centred and clear headed.
Competence and compensation.
Organizing physical things.
Academic writing.
Unpaid efforts.
Consider with pride the work that you do. Pat yourself on the back and accept some self-congratulations.
Bring order into your life and make the most of yourself and your resources.
Attending to details.
Prudence.
Satisfaction in attending to details.
Practice makes perfect.
Becoming a specialist in your field.
Slow, steady work.
Someone who is skilled with his hands.
Hobbies and interests turn into a profitable endeavour.
Card of the second time around apprentice.
Profit.
New success.
Discipline and focus.
Satisfaction in attending to details.
Centred and clear headed.
Competence and compensation.
Organizing physical things.
Academic writing.
Unpaid efforts.
Consider with pride the work that you do. Pat yourself on the back and accept some self-congratulations.
Bring order into your life and make the most of yourself and your resources.
Reversed
The impatient apprentice.
Sloppy work.
Frustration from lack of quality.
Vanity.
Overly ambitious.
A non-productive situation.
Wasting talent.
Working conditions lead to a labour dispute.
Getting impatient with a skill you are learning.
Doing things rather roughly.
Failure of ambitions.
Dishonesty, misuse of funds.
Inadequate compensation.
Investments show little or no profit.
Taking unfair advantage of someone.
Failure to take on your share of the work.
Employee with bad work habits.
Pulling a fast one.
Sloppy work.
Frustration from lack of quality.
Vanity.
Overly ambitious.
A non-productive situation.
Wasting talent.
Working conditions lead to a labour dispute.
Getting impatient with a skill you are learning.
Doing things rather roughly.
Failure of ambitions.
Dishonesty, misuse of funds.
Inadequate compensation.
Investments show little or no profit.
Taking unfair advantage of someone.
Failure to take on your share of the work.
Employee with bad work habits.
Pulling a fast one.
Links
- ATA
- The Eight of Pentacles is the first card of its suit to touch explicity on the spiritual realm, though it does so briefly and in certain circumstances only. Most of the time it refers to a time of hard work and dedication on ...
- Tarot Teachings
- The eight of pentacles Tarot card meaning provided here suggests the quality of our work, not the quantity as the key interpretive message.
- Crystal Reflections
- Eight of Pentacles (R) - You could be going about things the wrong way and need guidance - be willing now to listen to your "inner" voice. Your own impatience is creating this frustration and these unfulfilled ambitions. You can not take shortcuts to success ...
- Aleph Tarot
- Eight of Coins - Circumspection - Meaning of this card
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