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Pentacles



3 of Pentacles

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A sculptor at his work in a monastery. Compare the design which illustrates the Eight of Pentacles. The apprentice or amateur therein has received his reward and is now at work in earnest.

Divinatory Meanings: Métier, trade, skilled labour; usually, however, regarded as a card of nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory.

Reversed: Mediocrity, in work and otherwise, puerility, pettiness, weakness.





 
 



RWS Tarot by A.E. Waite & Pamela Colman-Smith
Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Text by A.E. Waite
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