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Seven of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning
The Seven of Pentacles tarot card means patience, long-term effort and taking stock. Patience while things grow.
Upright
- Patience
- long-term effort
- taking stock
Reversed
- Impatience
- poor returns
- wasted effort
Yes or no
Maybe
The Seven 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 young man leans on his hoe and looks at a leafy bush hung with seven pentacles.
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 Seven of Pentacles is read as the pause in the middle of long work. You have planted and tended, and now you look at what is growing and decide whether to keep going.
Seven of Pentacles reversed
Reversed, it is read as impatience, little to show for the effort, or putting work into the wrong thing.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Seven of Pentacles is usually read as a maybe: the answer depends on something not settled yet. 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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More Pentacles cards
Ace of PentaclesTwo of PentaclesThree of PentaclesFour of PentaclesFive of PentaclesSix of PentaclesEight of PentaclesNine of PentaclesTen of PentaclesPage of PentaclesKnight of PentaclesQueen of PentaclesKing of Pentacles
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