Seven of Pentacles

Key meanings

• patience
• assessing the fruits
• a pause in the work
• harvest
• invested effort

Seven of Pentacles upright

A patient pause in the middle of the work: time to weigh what has already grown from your effort.

The shadow side

Measuring yourself only by how fast things grow, and missing what has already come up.

Seven of Pentacles reversed

Impatience, the temptation to quit halfway, disappointment that the fruit grows slower than you hoped.

Seven of Pentacles as the card of the day

You lean on your hoe and look at the sprawling bush heavy with coins, the fruit of long work that you can finally take stock of. Don't rush to pick it all at once, and don't scold yourself that it grows slower than you wanted. A pause simply to look is part of the harvest too.

The question this card asks

If you stopped and looked honestly at the fruit of your work, what would you see?