Tarot card meanings · Pentacles
What does Eight of Pentacles mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Eight of Pentacles upright means “Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage”, and reversed “It may also signify the possession of skill, in the sense of the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue”.
Upright
Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
It may also signify the possession of skill, in the sense of the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Eight of Pentacles fall in a reading?
Eight of Pentacles belongs to the suit of Pentacles. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.