8. Eight of Pentacles
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Number: 8
Card Title: Eight of Pentacles
Esoteric Title: Lord of Prudence
Numerical Keywords: 8: Intellect, Progress, Science
Numerical Attributions: Venus, Green, World, Above
Intelligence: Perfect Absolute Intelligence
Element: Earth (cold, dry)
Elemental Keywords: Physical, Materiality, Worth
Elemental Attributions: North, Winter, Midnight
Astrological Attribution: Sun in Virgo
Dates & Timing: August 23 to September 1
Qabalistic World: Hod in Assiah
Translation of World: The Splendor of the Material World
Suit Color: Pentacles – Green
Keywords: Training, learning, selling something, economy, cunning, practical success, commissioned work, vanity.
Ill-Dignified:Over careful, hording, voided ambition, over qualified.
Interpretation: Pleasure in work, Going to school. Slow gradual learning. needs more experience and knowledge. Developing a new skill at work. Attention to detail.
Reversed Interpretation: Losing interest in a skill of feeling mediocre. Dropping out of school. Persist in mastering a skill rather than giving up. Devoete energies to a new area of interest.
Rider-Waite Imagery
The suit of pentacles is related to the element of earth and covers the physical world, health and financial matters.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies. Divinatory Meanings: Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage. Reversed: Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. It may also signify the possession of skill, in the sense of the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.
4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Eight.–A young man in business who has relations with the Querent; a dark girl. Reversed: The Querent will be compromised in a matter of money-lending.
The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing
In the Natural Position: 4 Eights = reverse; 3 Eights = marriage 2 Eights = new knowledge.
Reversed: 4 Eights = error; 3 Eights a spectacle; 2 Eights = misfortune.
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.
EIGHT. Partial success. Great loss of money at the moment apparently of definitely securing the fortune.
The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]
Meanings of the Cards
70. Eight of Pentacles.–A dark Girl, Beauty, Candour, Chastity, Innocence, Modesty; R. Flattery, Usury, Hypocrisy, Shifty.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Virgo I
A good maide, and a man casting seeds; it signifieth getting of wealth, ordering of diet, plowing, sowing, and peopling;
Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim
Book "T" The Tarot
XXIV. The Lord of Prudence:
Eight of Pentacles
A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, issuing from a cloud, and grasping a branch of a rose tree, with four white roses thereon, which touch only the four lowermost Pentacles. No rosebuds even, but only leaves, touch the four uppermost disks. All the Pentacles are similar to that of the Ace, but without the Maltese cross and wings. They are arranged like the geomantic figure Populus:
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Above and below them are the symbols Sun and Virgo for the Decan.
Over-careful in small things at the expense of great: "Penny wise and pound foolish": gain of ready money in small sums; mean; avaricious; industrious; cultivation of land; hoarding, lacking in enterprise.
Hod of HB:H (Skill: prudence: cunning).
Therein rule those mighty Angels HB:AKAYH and HB:KHThAL.
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 Eights Much news.
- 3 Eights Much journeying.
