Seven of Pentacles
patience · assessment · slow growth · the long game
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Pentacles
In a few words
- patience
- assessment
- slow growth
- the long game
A farmer leaning on his hoe, looking at a vine heavy with coins. Growth is happening, slowly; now is for assessing, not harvesting.
Upright
- Everything
- A farmer leaning on his hoe, looking at a vine heavy with coins. Growth is happening, slowly; now is for assessing, not harvesting.
- Love
- A relationship maturing at its own pace. Invest patience, not pressure.
- Work
- Long-term effort showing early results. Review, adjust, keep going.
- Money
- Investments growing slowly. Do not pull them up to check the roots.
- Myself
- Patience with your own growth. The vine does not hurry.
These are exceedingly contradictory; in the main, it is a card of money, business, barter; but one reading gives altercation, quarrel—and another innocence, ingenuity, purgation.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 268
Reversed
- Everything
- Impatience, a poor return on effort, or work that was never going to bear fruit.
- Love
- Investing in someone who does not grow with you. Reassess honestly.
- Work
- Effort in the wrong field. Cut the losses and plant elsewhere.
- Money
- A bad investment, or panicking and selling early. Look at the whole season.
- Myself
- Frustration with slow progress. Are you measuring the right thing?
Cause for anxiety regarding money which it may be proposed to lend.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 268
The card, as Waite described it
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.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 268
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.