Seven of Pentacles
Secret whisperLean on your hoe and watch the vine — patience is labour too.
Upright meaning
Upright keywordspatience, long-term view, assessment, investment
Take stock of what you have invested. Results take time; let the harvest ripen.
Reversed meaning
Reversed keywordsimpatience, poor returns, frustration, wasted effort
Frustration with slow returns. Re-evaluate the strategy rather than giving up on the field.
About the suit of Pentacles
Pentacles belong to Earth: money, work, the body, home and the slow building of security. They ask what is real, practical and lasting.
Reading the Sevens of the tarot
Sevens test you: reflection, assessment, temptation and standing firm.
In Waite’s own words (1910)
From A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, public domain. Original English text.
Divinatory meaning: 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.
The picture
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.
