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Eight of Pentacles

Minor Arcana · Pentacles

This is tarot, a different tradition from astrology. The card is drawn at random: nothing in the sky chooses it. It is a prompt for reflection and it predicts nothing.

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Tarot cardMinor Arcana · Pentacles

Traditionally read as dedicated practice: repetition, attention to detail and the gradual building of skill. It is associated with diligence, apprenticeship and the satisfaction of doing work well.

  • diligence
  • practice
  • mastery
A question to sit withWhat am I willing to practise until it becomes second nature?
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Reversed

What the tradition associates with this card when it falls the other way up.

Reversed, traditionally read as work done without attention, or with too much of it. It is associated with repetition that no longer teaches anything, with perfectionism, and with skill aimed at a task that does not matter much.

  • perfectionism
  • going through motions
  • misdirected skill
A question to sit withWhich part of my work am I polishing in order to avoid another part?

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