Seven of Pentacles: tarot card meaning

Seven of Pentacles is card 7 in the suit of Pentacles, associated with the element of Earth. Drawn upright it speaks of a stance, work, money; reversed, of material delay, stagnation.

Upright meaning

a stance, work, money

Patience with a growing crop -- the work is sown and it now asks for a watchful, unhurried wait.

Reversed meaning

material delay, stagnation

Impatience with slow growth, or effort spread too thin -- tend what you have planted rather than digging it up.

The suit of Pentacles belongs to Earth and to work, money and the body.

In a three-card reading

In the past position Seven of Pentacles describes the current that carried you to where you are; in the present position, what is most alive in the situation now; in the future position, the direction things tend toward if nothing changes. A reading weighs it against the other two cards rather than on its own.