Card 71 • pentacles

Eight of Pentacles

Brief Description

This card represents the dedicated pursuit of mastery through patient practice and skill development. Like a sorceress spinning nettle into gold, you must persist through seemingly impossible tasks, trusting that your abilities will improve with time and devotion. The process of learning itself brings joy, and true mastery comes not just from practice, but from wholehearted dedication to your craft.

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The Sorceress's Task

At first, the task of turning nettle into gold through spinning seemed impossible—how could bundles and stems create something valuable? This defied common sense. But patiently and diligently, the sorceress wound the stems around her spindle, passing them through her sensitive fingers. Over time, she began to notice that her skills had improved—gold began to glimmer slightly on the spindle entangled with fuzzy fibers. Full of determination, she continues her work, and her confidence only grows with each new spindle.

The Path to Mastery

Becoming an adept requires time, and mastering magical skills is no easier than mastering worldly ones. Practice leads to improvement, but dedication leads to mastery. Whatever your work may be, do it by applying all your abilities. Don't be afraid to leave your comfort zone. But don't lose sight of what's important in your drive to achieve results at any cost. The learning process itself brings pleasure.

Brief Meaning

Skill improvement. Meticulous work. Advancing mastery. Complete dedication to one's craft.

If You Look Closely

The tiny bird on the branch is a wren. He is very happy that he managed to build a nest from golden threads.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Lunaea Weatherstone, Meraylah Allwood

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