Ryver
Give a fish vs. teach to fish
I can see where this card might imply giving what is easy and quick instead of truly caring to take the time and energy to give what it needed. It is easy to throw a few coins in a can held out by a nearly faceless homeless person instead of dedicating so much time to rehabilitating a human being to rejoin society as a healthy productive member with a job, home, family. Easier to give a man a fish than it is to invest yourself in teaching him to fish.
So now that I have come to terms with the negative hint of this card I also see a positive side. I see this card more about giving with no strings attached and learning to let go of the need to control others by using gifts or loans as leverage to influence their choices. This man is saying, "here is this gift and I make no demands on how it is used." These pentacles are opportunities that can be squandered or invested and turned into something amazing. They aren't really being put directly into your hand so you have to reach for them a bit and then put your own effort into expanding this fortune.
I can see where this card might imply giving what is easy and quick instead of truly caring to take the time and energy to give what it needed. It is easy to throw a few coins in a can held out by a nearly faceless homeless person instead of dedicating so much time to rehabilitating a human being to rejoin society as a healthy productive member with a job, home, family. Easier to give a man a fish than it is to invest yourself in teaching him to fish.
So now that I have come to terms with the negative hint of this card I also see a positive side. I see this card more about giving with no strings attached and learning to let go of the need to control others by using gifts or loans as leverage to influence their choices. This man is saying, "here is this gift and I make no demands on how it is used." These pentacles are opportunities that can be squandered or invested and turned into something amazing. They aren't really being put directly into your hand so you have to reach for them a bit and then put your own effort into expanding this fortune.