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Eight of Pentacles

Earth · Pentacles
The Eight of Pentacles card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A craftsman at a bench carves a pentacle, six finished ones hung on the post beside him and one at his feet.

Upright

  • Diligence
  • Practice
  • Craft

Traditionally the card of repetition that makes skill — the sixth is better than the first. It invites you to notice what you are actually getting good at.

Reversed

  • Drudgery
  • Perfectionism
  • Cutting corners

Read reversed, the practice loses its point: work gone mechanical, polish long past useful, or speed taken where care was needed.

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About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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