Card 66 • pentacles

Three of Pentacles

Brief Description

This card emphasizes collaborative craftsmanship and the generative power of creative ideas. The Manes—guardian spirits of burial sites—invoke ancestral care and ritual reverence, while the three figures balancing decorative disks highlight distinct individual contributions within a group. It urges you to take practical steps on a project by revisiting past skills or cultivating new ones. The card advises combining focused effort with shared talents to produce lasting, well-crafted results.

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Three of Pentacles (Manes)

Story

Manes were ghosts and guardians of burial sites and monuments. They were considered good spirits and were referred to as Di Manes, or divine dead. Each year, during the feast of Parentalia, gravesites were visited and offerings were made to honor the dead. Roman tombstones were often inscribed with the letters DM (Di Manes) to officiate the spirits. This luminous image exemplifies energy born from the seeds of creative thinking. The three spirits balance their decorative disks, the different designs representing individual contribution to a team effort.

Divinatory meaning

This is the time to tackle a project by brushing up on old skills or nurturing new ones.

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