Eight of Pentacles
The Eight of Pentacles emphasizes dedicated effort, disciplined practice, and the long journey toward mastery. It calls for becoming an apprentice to your own improvement and not resting on natural talent or past achievements. Persistence through false starts, technical blunders, and tedious repetition leads to progress and work you can be proud of. Ultimately, the card is a clear call to gather your tools, focus on the process, and do the work well.
Keywords
Eight of Pentacles
Keywords:
Hard work, dedication, diligence, honing your craft.
Meaning:
The 8 of Pentacles is about working toward the mastery of our craft, something that requires years of diligence, study, and practice—even for those gifted with natural talent. This card calls for us to become an apprentice to our own improvement and to not rest on our laurels. We have the ability to make something incredible—if we have the dedication to work for it. The 8 of Pentacles instructs us to build our skills and hone our craft. It asks us to do the work, and to do it well.
Perseverance
Above all, the 8 of Pentacles says to just do the damn work. Sometimes, if we can force ourselves to sit down at the workbench and do something, anything, if we can persist through the frustrating false starts and technical blunders, we'll find that eventually, something comes. And if we can keep working on that thing, maybe it will get better, and greater, and become something that we can be proud of.
Call to Action
Gather your tools, this card says, and get to work.
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Visual Description
A long, laden banquet table recedes into the distance, piled with bread, cheeses, sliced meats, grapes, figs, pomegranate, bottles and small dishes. A single place setting is foregrounded with a plate decorated with nine pentacle symbols, cutlery, glassware and a candle in the center of the table. At the bottom of the card the Roman numeral IX is printed and a faint artist watermark appears across the image.
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