Tarot · Pentacles
Seven of Pentacles
- patience
- taking stock
- growth
The picture
A young farmer leans on his hoe and looks at seven pentacles growing on a green bush.
The meaning
The farmer has done the work and now looks at what has grown. The tradition reads the Seven of Pentacles as patience, taking stock halfway and effort that slowly bears fruit. It stands for the question of whether the work is paying off and how to go on. The harvest is coming, but not at once.
Reversed
Reversed, it is read as impatience, or effort that seems to yield little just now.
In love
In love it is read as a relationship that grows slowly and needs tending.
At work
At work it stands for long-term undertakings, an interim review and staying power.
As your card of the day
Today is a day to pause briefly and see what has already grown. The harvest needs a little more time.
The Seven of Pentacles stands for patience. Let something grow today without tugging at it all the time.
Pentacles belong to earth. The tradition reads them as work, the body, possessions and everything we build with our hands.
Picture: Pamela Colman Smith, Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, 1909, public domain (Wikimedia Commons).