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3. Seven of Pentacles

Minor Arcana · Pentacles

Seven of Pentacles

• money
• business
• innocence
• ingenuity

Upright meaning

Pausing to look at what you have grown. Waite calls the readings contradictory: business, but also innocence and ingenuity.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite notes anxiety regarding money that may be lent. A prompt to think carefully before lending or committing.

• anxiety regarding money

Symbolism

A young man leans on his staff, looking at seven pentacles growing on a bush.

Group

Minor Arcana · Pentacles

Element, astrology

Not given by Waite, so we give none

Source

Our own plain-English summary of A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1911), Part III §2 (The Lesser Arcana). The keywords are Waite’s own words. Waite’s fortune-telling lists also contain harsher terms; we keep to the reflective readings he gives and never state an event as certain.

Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction of fixed outcomes. This is not medical, legal or financial advice.