Eight of Pentacles

Practice and hard work.

What Eight of Pentacles can mean for your day

In tradition, a craftsman carves coins one by one at his bench. Getting good takes repetition. Today is good for focused, steady work.

Try: Spend half an hour practising a skill.

Where it sits in the deck

Tarot is a deck of 78 picture cards. 56 of them, like this one, are about everyday life. They come in four groups, called suits, a bit like playing cards.

Pentacles: money, work and home. Pentacles are coins with a star on them. In tradition, the suit of Earth.

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