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Minor Arcana · Suit of Pentacles · Number card
Seven · Pentacles
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightPatient workTaking stockSlow growth
↓ ReversedImpatienceAnxious waitingEffort misplaced
What it means
↑ Upright
A gardener leans on his hoe and looks at what has grown — his treasures, Waite says, with his heart in them. The card points to work well under way but not yet ripe, and to the pause in which it is judged. Take stock honestly: what is thriving, what is not, and whether the next season's labor belongs in the same ground.
↓ Reversed
Worry gnaws at the waiting: growth seems too slow, or something placed in another person's hands leaves you uneasy. Waite speaks of anxiety over a proposed loan. Before giving more of your time or trust, ask for the terms in plain words, and give slow things the season they need.
Seven sets a test, and in Pentacles it is the test of patience in work that grows slowly. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows a young farmer resting both hands on his hoe, looking at seven pentacles hanging like fruit on a leafy vine beside him. The crop is real but not yet ready to gather; his stillness marks the gap between sowing and reaping, when nothing more can be done but wait and assess.
Upright
These are exceedingly contradictory; in the main, it is a card of money, business, barter; but one reading gives altercation, quarrel—and another innocence, ingenuity, purgation.
Reversed
Cause for anxiety regarding money which it may be proposed to lend.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.