8 Pentacles

The Card: A male sculptor is making pentacles with hammer and chisel, sitting on a bench. Six of them are hanging, one is on the ground, and one is being worked on. In the background a town is seen against a grey sky.

Interpretation: The man is at peace with his work. Man and material, man and matter are coming into union. He is creating his own fortune. Fortune being a word which can both mean money and future. For him the creation process is a means of meditation, spiritual fulfilment.

Behind him the town is seen, where he will return to after his days work.

Prediction: Its time to adopt the 'right' way of working, or BEing altogether. In this way the work is not resisted, even if it seems mundane. Any work is fulfilling both spiritually and physically, its only my attitude towards it which matters.

Keywords: Equilibrium between being and doing, fulfilment, simplicity, absence of needs.

©2017 Jan Kirk (text only)