Card of the Day for August 16 - Eight of Pentacles
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Attribution - Sun in Virgo.
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.
Rider-Waite Imagery
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
Upright: 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.
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.
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