Tentative Pentacles

Fulgour

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I love the way Pam illustrated the 'finished' Pentacles, to show
how the workman is still learning his craft ~ they're all a little
bit off still, since he's just getting the hang of things...

Even how he's simply set to work on a little bench, not with
a big worktable and a full shop of tools and raw materials.
I think of him working there, and in his mind he's thinking:

"I'll make a sign, something to bring in the customers..."
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Rusty Neon

The Apprentice

Fulgour said:
I love the way Pam illustrated the 'finished' Pentacles, to show
how the workman is still learning his craft ~ they're all a little
bit off still, since he's just getting the hang of things...

In various other Pentacles cards of the Rider-Waite deck, the pentacles are not identical with one another. As regards the 8 of Pentacles of the Rider-Waite deck, that card can sometimes be seen in a reading as representing the apprentice. In Waite's _The Pictorial Key to the Tarot_, the divinatory meanings indicated for the upright 8 of Pentacles are: "Work, empolyment, commission, craftmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage."

I note also that the Deniers (Coins) of woodcut Tarot de Marseille deck Deniers cards were a bit 'off' and non-uniform, like the coinage of ancient times. I wonder if this is where the idea came up to make the Rider-Waite deck's pentacles a bit off.
 

Fulgour

a glimpse of heaven

When we look at the Robin Wood version of this card
there is a very young boy, and some high quality work!
My impression has always been that he is visiting his
mother or father's workroom, and imagining about how
someday he'll make such wonderful things of beauty too.
It's like a little glimpse of heaven, remembering my own
childhood, and how the grown up world seemed so big.

This is kind of what I feel about Pam's 8 of Pentacles, but
here the workman may be an eager apprentice who has
started a little something on his own ~ his own boss where
this enterprise is concerned, here working independently.

But his wife isn't going to let him take over the house...
so he's gathered together his resources and set to work
where he won't disturb anyone ~ it's a great challenge,
and yet each completed Pentacle stands "just as is" and
he moves right on to the next. He's learning, and happy!
 

cartarum

the eight

i feel as though there is the four of swords in here as well. one might extricate themselves from society for a variety of reasons; in the four, its for rest. in the eight, its to get something done. kaplan writes the eight as possibly new information. this may be like when you find a new way of looking at something, or get a new video game, and you tend to focus only on what you have to work on (homework, a relationship, a job, that game) i am alluding to the fact that he has gone as far as he can from the town, while keeping the town in sight. you see what i mean?
~A~
 

Penelope

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cartarum said:
i am alluding to the fact that he has gone as far as he can from the town, while keeping the town in sight.
=A Home Away from Home=
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Fulgour

and then there's Mary's deck

The Hanson-Roberts Tarot Deck shows a busy worker,
almost elfin with that droopy red pixie hood slung back
and such a gleeful determination polishing yet a another
golden Pentacle, seven new ones shown brightly shining.

So many people have told me this is their favourite deck!


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