Seven of Pentacles
Pentacles
How This Card Is Derived
Papus gives no separate description of this card. It is derived from his system: Pentacles is He final (ה), the realizing principle, the term that makes fact, acting in Assiah, the material world; the number 7 is He final of the second series, and Yod of the third, a second realization, which itself sets the last movement going. The meaning below is that combination read out — the realizing principle, the term that makes fact taken at its 7th term — not a quotation from him.
Upright
The second pivot: a realization consisting in value accrued and not yet taken. The vine is grown, the fruit is on it, the worker leans on the tool and counts. Papus's seventh term genuinely realizes — the crop is real — and it is also the unstable opening of the last series, so the card sits exactly at the moment where a decision about timing has to be made and has not been.
Reversed
The crop taken too early, or left too long. Or the counting itself become the work, assessment substituted for harvest because assessment cannot fail.
Correspondences
- Suit
- Pentacles — He final (ה), Assiah, the material world
- Suit principle
- the realizing principle, the term that makes fact
- Number
- 7 — He final of the second series, and Yod of the third
- Numeric role
- a second realization, which itself sets the last movement going
In a Spread
At the commencement, the matter begins with an investment already made and not yet returned. In opposition, a delay costing more than it appears to. At equilibrium the situation is stable while the thing grows. As the result: value accrued — and a seventh term hands on, so the reading does not stop at the yield.