Card 66 • pentacles

Three of Pentacles

Brief Description

The scene shows a Viking crafting a vegvísir and intricate patterns into shields mid-battle, emphasizing skilled workmanship and focused effort. The imagery highlights attention to detail, the importance of one's contribution, and the process of replicating expertise across multiple responsibilities. Upright meanings advise focus, setting short-term goals, and expressing talents through careful work, while reversed meanings warn of isolation, refusal of advice, conflict with authority, and silence. The Bind Rune calls to stand by your beliefs with integrity.

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Card Title

THREE OF SHIELDS

Description

A Viking holds a hammer and chisel. They are hard at work, delicately crafting the intricate patterns and vegvísir that appear on the clan's shields. The Viking wears full armor. This suggests that they are working on the fly during an important battle. The vegvísir has been placed into one shield already. Two more shields hang on the wall behind the person. They are made with two types of wood: light and dark. Soon the Viking will take each of these shields off and begin the long, careful process to carve the same patterns into them, as they are doing with the one in front of them. More woodworking tools appear on the table in front of them. Two Runes appear on the shields hanging on the wall.

Upright

Focus on the details, your contribution matters, make critical short-term goals, express your talents.

Reversed

Operating alone, not taking advice, fighting against authority, stay silent, unable to listen to good advice.

Bind Rune

Stand by your beliefs with integrity.

Visual Description

A bearded, helmeted craftsman leans over a large round wooden shield or disk, holding a small chisel in one hand while raising a hammer in the other. The disk is engraved with geometric runes and knotwork; wood shavings and tool marks are visible on its surface. Three round shields are mounted on the wall behind him, and a small circular token near the top displays the numeral "3." The scene is set in a timbered interior with carved posts and a worn wooden floor.

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