Three 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 3 is Vau of the first series, the equilibrium binding the two. The meaning below is that combination read out — the realizing principle, the term that makes fact taken at its 3rd term — not a quotation from him.
Upright
The binding term of the material world: work combined. Three is where something exists that neither of the first two terms contained, and in Assiah that emergent thing is the craft — the mason, the plan and the patron, none of whom can produce the building alone. Papus's third term always unites, and here it unites by division of labour. Skill recognised, and recognised specifically by people who need it.
Reversed
The collaboration nominal — three parties named, one doing the work. Or craft exercised without the other two terms, so that it is entirely competent and completely unusable.
Correspondences
- Suit
- Pentacles — He final (ה), Assiah, the material world
- Suit principle
- the realizing principle, the term that makes fact
- Number
- 3 — Vau of the first series
- Numeric role
- the equilibrium binding the two
In a Spread
At the commencement, the matter begins as a joint piece of work. In opposition, a collaboration the querent depends on and does not control. At equilibrium the arrangement is what is holding. As the result: something is built, by more than one person, and the credit will be divided.