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The Eight of Pentacles card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck

Pentacles

Eight of Pentacles

practice · craft · repetition

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Eight coins, made one at a time, each a little better than the last. The Eight is skill built by doing the same thing repeatedly: unglamorous, undramatic, and the only method that has ever actually worked.

Reversed

Reversed, you're going through the motions, or perfectionism has turned practice into a punishment.

If this is your card this month

What are you willing to be mediocre at for long enough to get good?

A card is a prompt rather than a forecast. It doesn't know what will happen, and the useful part is what you do with the question it hands you. We make that case at more length in not a prediction, a mirror.

Where this card came from

If Eight of Pentacles arrived on a postcard, it was drawn for you for that full moon, and the reflection on the back was written from what it means. And if it didn't, well — that's the other thing we do here: a card and a reflection in your mailbox every full moon.

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