Seven of Pentacles
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Saturn in Taurus
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.
The ability of bringing Spirit to Earth is what makes us whole.
Seven is the number of the Universe. It is the three of the heavens (soul) combined with the four (body) of the earth; being the first number containing both the spiritual and the temporal. In all cultures, myths and legends seven represents completeness and totality, macrocosm, perfection, plenty, reintegration, mysticism, magic, change, turning point, rebellion, eccentricity, fate.
Crowley - Lord of Failure
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.
The ability of bringing Spirit to Earth is what makes us whole.
Seven is the number of the Universe. It is the three of the heavens (soul) combined with the four (body) of the earth; being the first number containing both the spiritual and the temporal. In all cultures, myths and legends seven represents completeness and totality, macrocosm, perfection, plenty, reintegration, mysticism, magic, change, turning point, rebellion, eccentricity, fate.
Crowley - Lord of Failure
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
A young man, leaning on his staff, looks intently at seven pentacles attached to a clump of greenery on his right; one would say that these were his treasures and that his heart was there.
Divinatory Meanings: These are exceedingly contradictory; in the main, it is a card of money, business, barter; but one reading gives altercation, quarrels-and another innocence, ingenuity, purgation.
Reversed: Cause for anxiety regarding money which it may be proposed to lend.
Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Seven - Improved position for a lady's future husband.
Reversed: Impatience, apprehension, suspicion.
Divinatory Meanings: These are exceedingly contradictory; in the main, it is a card of money, business, barter; but one reading gives altercation, quarrels-and another innocence, ingenuity, purgation.
Reversed: Cause for anxiety regarding money which it may be proposed to lend.
Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Seven - Improved position for a lady's future husband.
Reversed: Impatience, apprehension, suspicion.
Upright
Now you must wait.
In the RWS deck the man wears boots that don't match. Is he a non-conformist? An eccentric? Someone who found that his dissatisfaction comes from being successful in work that doesn't really suit him?
Examine what constitutes success in your life. Making a lot of money? Being creative? Following family traditions?
Do you have victory without passion? Perhaps a musician who becomes a successful business man because that is what the family expects of you.
This card also represents the perfectionist who can never be satisfied, the man of such ambition that nothing will ever be enough.
Patience, a waiting period, re-evaluation, waiting for results, a choice between risk and security.
Don't give up.
The threshold of opportunity.
Knowledge, peace, lack of anxiety. (Fey Tarot)
Don't rest on past achievements.
Explore unconventional ideas.
The investment you made will have a good return.
All your hard work and effort will pay off.
Writing and publishing.
Telegrams, news.
ESP experiences.
Travel on physical and psychic realms.
In the RWS deck the man wears boots that don't match. Is he a non-conformist? An eccentric? Someone who found that his dissatisfaction comes from being successful in work that doesn't really suit him?
Examine what constitutes success in your life. Making a lot of money? Being creative? Following family traditions?
Do you have victory without passion? Perhaps a musician who becomes a successful business man because that is what the family expects of you.
This card also represents the perfectionist who can never be satisfied, the man of such ambition that nothing will ever be enough.
Patience, a waiting period, re-evaluation, waiting for results, a choice between risk and security.
Don't give up.
The threshold of opportunity.
Knowledge, peace, lack of anxiety. (Fey Tarot)
Don't rest on past achievements.
Explore unconventional ideas.
The investment you made will have a good return.
All your hard work and effort will pay off.
Writing and publishing.
Telegrams, news.
ESP experiences.
Travel on physical and psychic realms.
Reversed
You have grown impatient or anxious.
Laziness.
Poor speculation.
Broken or missing tools.
An investment won't pay off the way you had hoped.
Money is slipping away.
Getting your second wind.
Delays, frustrations, doubts.
Stress and worry over money.
Investing in a losing proposition.
A loan will not be repaid.
Unexpected bills will be coming in.
Creditors will call.
You aren't where you want to go in life but a change is occurring - be ready to move forward.
Throwing away opportunities because you don't see them.
Loss.
Impatience.
A lousy lover or disinterested spouse.
Failure in projects caused by laziness and lack of analytical thinking.
Laziness.
Poor speculation.
Broken or missing tools.
An investment won't pay off the way you had hoped.
Money is slipping away.
Getting your second wind.
Delays, frustrations, doubts.
Stress and worry over money.
Investing in a losing proposition.
A loan will not be repaid.
Unexpected bills will be coming in.
Creditors will call.
You aren't where you want to go in life but a change is occurring - be ready to move forward.
Throwing away opportunities because you don't see them.
Loss.
Impatience.
A lousy lover or disinterested spouse.
Failure in projects caused by laziness and lack of analytical thinking.
Links
- OpenTarot
- A directory of tarot and occult sites.
- Learning the Tarot
- Seven of Pentacles from Joan Bunning's free online course for Learning the Tarot.
- ATA
- Essay by James Rioux (The Black Shadow) The Seven of Pentacles shows those times when a choice must be made between keeping what you have and trying to get more. This is probably the most overtly dualistic of the Pentacles cards and, as befits the nature of the ...
- Tarot Teachings
- It's been a long row to hoe, but the seven of pentacles tarot card meaning indicates the rewards were worth the effort. A good time for reflection too. Find out more here.
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