07. Seven of Pentacles
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Number: 7
Card Title: Seven of Pentacles
Esoteric Title: Lord of Success Unfulfilled
Numerical Keywords: 7:Brilliant, Zeal, Passion
Numerical Attributions: Venus, Green, World, Above
Intelligence: Concealed or Occult Intelligence
Element: Earth (cold, dry)
Elemental Keywords: Physical, Materiality, Worth
Elemental Attributions: North, Winter, Midnight
Astrological Attribution: Saturn in Taurus
Dates & Timing: May 11 to May 20
Qabalistic World: Netzach in Assiah
Translation of World: The Victory of the Material World
Suit Color: Pentacles – Green
Keywords: Fruits of Labor, Disappointment, Reevaluation, misery, slavery, necessity, disappointment.
Ill-Dignified:Bad investment, Expense, Anxiety, Impatience, Unprofitable enterprise.
Interpretation: Unexpected money or job. Evaluation of efforts thus far. Avoid stale plateau in career. Delay but with growth. Reassess and revaluate your progress to decide if you still need to to it. Is it worth it or not? Hoes decreased and crushed. Unprofitable employment. Little gain for the amount of work.
Reversed Interpretation: Maybe feeling careless and unmotivated. Contemplating bad investments. Little gain from too much work. Unexpected shakeup at work. Unsatisfying jobs or commitments. Trapped feeling.
Rider-Waite Imagery
The focus of the seven of pentacles is effort, passion and energy in the realm of home, health, finances and worth. The central figure is a man resting his hands on a hoe. He is looking down at the fruits of his labor which are seven yellow pentacles. He is wearing a white shirt with blue (emotions, observing) sleeves, blue tights an orange tunic (stabilizing balance), a brown (practical) belt and orange boots. He is reaping the rewards of hard effort and labor. However he is considering if the effort is worth the results.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
A young man, leaning on his staff, looks intently at seven pentacles attached to a clump of greenery on his right; one would say that these were his treasures and that his heart was there. Divinatory Meanings: These are exceedingly contradictory; in the main, it is a card of money, business, barter; but one reading gives altercation, quarrels–and another innocence, ingenuity, purgation. Reversed: Cause for anxiety regarding money which it may be proposed to lend.
4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Seven.–Improved position for a lady’s future husband. Reversed: Impatience, apprehension, suspicion.
The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing
In the Natural Position: 4 Sevens = intrigue; 3 Sevens = infirmity; 2 Sevens = news.
Reversed: 4 Sevens = quarrellers; 3 Sevens = joy; 2 Sevens = women of no repute.
The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus; tr. A. P Morton, [1896]
Signification of the Four Series of Minor Arcana in the Divining Tarot
PENTACLES. Development. Money. Trade.
SEVEN. Success assured. A large fortune.
The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]
Meanings of the Cards
71. Seven of Pentacles.–Money, Finance, Treasure, Gain, Profit; R. Disturbance, Worry, Anxiety, Melancholy.
Additional Remarks
The following additional remarks may be serviceable to the to the inexperienced Cartomancer. They are chiefly taken from Etteilla.
71. Seven of Pentacles.–R. The next card will show the reason of the anxiety, and so on.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Taurus III
A man in whose hand is a Serpent, and a dart, and is the image of necessity and profit, and also of misery & slavery.
Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim
Book "T" The Tarot
L. The Lord of Success Unfulfilled
Seven of Pentacles
A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand issuing from a cloud, and holding a white rose branch. Seven Pentacles arranged like the geomantic figure Rubeus:
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There are only five buds, which overhang, but do not touch the five uppermost Pentacles. Above and below are the Decan symbols, Saturn and Taurus respectively.
Promises of success unfulfilled. (Shewn, as it were, by the fact that the rosebuds do not come to anything.) Loss of apparently promising fortune. Hopes deceived and crushed. Disappointment, misery, slavery, necessity and baseness. A cultivator of land, and yet a loser thereby. Sometimes it denotes slight and isolated gains with no fruits resulting therefrom, and of no further account, though seeming to promise well.
Netzach of HB:H (Unprofitable speculations and employments; little gain for much labour).
Therein HB:HRChAL and HB:MTzRAL are ruling Angels.
Often the General signification of the Majority of a particular suit and of the particular signification of the either 3 of 4 cards of a sort in a reading:
- A Majority of Pentacles Business, money, possessions.
- 4 Sevens Disappointments.
- 3 Sevens Treaties and compacts
