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Eight of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning
The Eight of Pentacles tarot card means diligence, practice and skill. Steady practice and craft.
Upright
- Diligence
- practice
- skill
Reversed
- Perfectionism
- dull routine
- cutting corners
Yes or no
Yes
The Eight of Pentacles is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Pentacles. Pentacles are the suit of earth: money, work, home, health and the things you can touch.
What the card shows
A craftsman sits on a bench hammering a design into a pentacle. Finished ones hang on a post beside him and a town stands in the distance.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Eight of Pentacles is read as getting good at something by doing it over and over. It points to study, apprenticeship and careful, steady work.
Eight of Pentacles reversed
Reversed, it is read as work that has become a grind, perfectionism, or rushing the job.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Eight of Pentacles is usually read as a yes. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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Ace of PentaclesTwo of PentaclesThree of PentaclesFour of PentaclesFive of PentaclesSix of PentaclesSeven of PentaclesNine of PentaclesTen of PentaclesPage of PentaclesKnight of PentaclesQueen of PentaclesKing of Pentacles
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