Ace of Pentacles:
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Two of Pentacles:
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Three of Pentacles: At the right place, at the right time, with the right people
In Sun Bin’s Art of War, a military strategy book written around AD1000, there is a chapter called “Moon War '' where he emphasizes the importance of the alignment of three elements for initiating a war: weather, location and soldiers.
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Four of Pentacles: The Protector of Your Energy
As a grown woman who’s been through stuff, healing is an ongoing journey. It takes a lot of agonizing inner work to come to terms with certain facets in life. There’s always a conscious emphasis on improving my whole being for my own sake as well as for the people I choose to spend time with. It didn’t come naturally to sit quietly in a flow; I used to go along instead of saying no; I finally feel it’s in my right to call things off. It’s an acquired privilege: to be selective and to know that it is also a privilege for others to be in my energy realm. Not everyone deserves it, certainly not those who think they do.
Five of Pentacles: Stay Grounded
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Six of Pentacles
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Seven of Pentacles: The Game of Tetris
In the game of Tetris, pieces with different shapes descend onto the playing field. The goal is to match those pieces and complete lines after lines (so they disappear) in order to maintain the vacant space. Sometimes a player would have to wait for a “good” piece to eliminate a big chunk at once while having incomplete holes everywhere as well as the increasingly growing blocks which induce a copious amount of anxiety. Seven of Pentacles asks us to reside in those uncertain spaces and wait for the right timing for that good piece to arrive in life.
In Human all Too Human, Nietzsche expresses his concern with the impatience in humans: “[The modern] individual focuses too narrowly on his own short lifespan...and wants to pluck the fruit himself from the tree he plants, and so no longer likes to plant those trees that demand a century of constant tending and are intended to provide shade for long successions of generations.” Understandably, we all have the inherent urge to remove ourselves from the uncertainty. There are evolutionary benefits for our brains to react quickly. However, Seven of Pentacles invites us to foresee a more aligned future and resist the immediate grasp for comfort. It takes trust in the Self to surrender to ambivalence. To trust the timing is power. To reconstruct the anxiety into a new dimension for growth is power. Why do we need validations from others so restlessly? Is there something we can do to bring us back to our own sovereignty? Can we become our own safe space? Trust that you are exactly where you are supposed to be at this very moment in life. Let the pieces fall in, fall out. Channel the energy for the good piece to come through.
Wait for the heart to jump-start anew.
Eight of Pentacles
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Nine of Pentacles
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Ten of Pentacles
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Page of Pentacles
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Knight of Pentacles: Preparation
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Queen of Pentacles
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King of Pentacles:
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