Eight of Pentacles

earth · eight

Pentacles are Earth — body, money, work, the material.

Upright

Practice. Head down, repetition, getting genuinely good at something rather than just interested in it.

Reversed

Going through the motions, or perfectionism that's stopped being craft.

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