Earth · body

The life you can hold

Pentacles are matter — money, health, craft, the garden, the house key. Fourteen doors. Slow on purpose.

Stay. Skip. Nothing is scored. Earth does not mind if you take the week.

The story: a seed of coin, a cold season, a craft, a gate with dogs and children.

Four quiet movements

• The seed

  Ace through Four — matter arriving, then the clutch

• The season

  Five through Seven — hardship, fairness, waiting on the crop

• The craft

  Eight through Ten — hours, ease, lineage

• The household

  The four courts — how earth lives in a person

1. 

   1. The Coin in the Gate

   Ace of Pentacles

2. 

   2. The Juggle

   Two of Pentacles

3. 

   3. The Workbench

   Three of Pentacles

4. 

   4. The Clutch

   Four of Pentacles

5. 

   5. The Cold

   Five of Pentacles

6. 

   6. The Scales

   Six of Pentacles

7. 

   7. The Pause in the Orchard

   Seven of Pentacles

8. 

   8. The Apprentice Hours

   Eight of Pentacles

9. 

   9. The Vineyard

   Nine of Pentacles

10. 

    10. The Gate

    Ten of Pentacles

11. 

    11. The Student of Matter

    Page of Pentacles

12. 

    12. The Slow Horse

    Knight of Pentacles

13. 

    13. The Garden Throne

    Queen of Pentacles

14. 

    14. The Steward

    King of Pentacles