Three of Pentacles
The Three of Pentacles emphasizes collaboration, community, and contributing specialized skills to a meaningful, lasting project. It symbolizes working together to build something larger than oneself, as represented by the three hand tools constructing a bell tower. In readings it encourages asking for help and combining talents rather than attempting to do everything alone, since collaboration nurtures growth and improves outcomes. The card promises that such collective or service-oriented labor is sacred and likely to produce tangible, long-lasting results.
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Card Name
Three of Pentacles
Keywords
Building something meaningful, fully aligned or sacred work, sharing skills, working together.
Meaning
In the previous card, we worked alone, but in the 3 of Pentacles, we work together. This card is about collaborations and contributing our skills and expertise to something larger than us, here symbolized by the three hand tools that each serve a different function in building the bell tower. Similar to the 3 of Cups and its tie with friendship, the 3 of Pentacles is tied to community. This is a card about the things we build collectively, or the solo work we do that serves more than just ourselves. This work is meaningful. This work is long-lasting. This work is sacred.
In a Reading
In a reading, this card is an encouraging indication that we're engaged in building something real and tangible in the material world, something with rich roots that can grow tall. If we're struggling on a project, it can be a nudge to consider how our skills and talents may be complemented by those of others. We don't need to be an expert in everything—nor could we be. In fact, if we try to do it all ourselves, our work may very well suffer from it. When this card appears, collaboration and asking for help are creative and necessary and will only nurture and expand our growth.
Closing
Whatever the case, the 3 of Pentacles is a promising indication to continue doing the good work because, to quote a line from the classic 80s film Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come.”
End Marker
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Visual Description
A chunk of earth floats in the air topped with grass, a tree stump, a small sapling and a couple of mushrooms. Long tangled roots hang downward from the soil like ropes and tendrils. Among the roots dangle a pocket watch, a coin, a heart-shaped locket and a crown, each marked with a pentacle. At the bottom of the card the Roman numeral IV is printed and a faint watermark text runs across the middle of the image.
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