Seven of PentaclesTarot card meaning
The Seven of Pentacles is a Minor Arcana card in the suit of Pentacles. In tarot it means patience, assessment and long game. As a yes or no answer, it says not yet.
Leaning on the hoe, counting the fruit. The Seven of Pentacles is the pause of assessment, the crop is growing, slower than you hoped, but growing. Adjust what you can, then give it time.
In a yes or no reading: Not yet clear · yes or no tarot →
- Element
- Earth
- Astrology
- Saturn in Taurus
- Number
- 7
What the card shows
A farmer leans on his hoe and studies the seven pentacles growing on a heavy vine. Six hang on the plant; one sits by his foot. He is not working in this picture, and that is the point: there is a moment in every long effort when the only honest work is to look at it and decide what it has earned.
Seven of Pentacles reversed
Watering a dead plant. Reversed, it asks the brave accounting question: is this investment, of money, effort, years, still growing anything? Sunk costs make bad fertilizer.
How to read a reversed card →Seven of Pentacles in love
In love, the Seven of Pentacles is waiting for it to ripen: the man leaning on his hoe, looking at the coins growing on the vine. It speaks of a relationship that has taken time and still does not give what you expected, of asking yourself whether it is worth tending further, of a slow love still forming. The card says do not cut it green. And look honestly at whether the plant is growing.
Is Seven of Pentacles a yes or a no?
The Seven of Pentacles answers not yet clear, and says so leaning on his hoe. The man looks at the coins growing on the vine and cannot cut them yet. What you ask is ripening; rushing it ruins it. Keep tending it and ask again when something changes color.
Compare: the same card in all four suits
| Card | Keyword | Element | Yes or no |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seven of Wands | defense | Fire | Yes |
| Seven of Cups | options | Water | Not yet clear |
| Seven of Swords | stealth | Air | No |
| Seven of Pentacles | patience | Earth | Not yet clear |
Cards that often appear with it
- Eight of Pentacles
The next card in the suit
- Seven of Swords
The same number in the opposed element
- The Empress
The Major Arcana that rules this suit's questions
Number and correspondence
In the deck's old correspondences, the Seven of Pentacles belongs to Saturn in Taurus.
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