Pentacles · Minor Arcana
A sculptor at his work in a monastery.
A craftsman stands with two others — a monk and a noble — in a cathedral under construction. The work rises only because three different kinds of knowledge meet in one place. You are being reminded: some things are built only together.
Element
Earth
Numerology
3— growth, expression, synthesis, the first fruit
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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Three of Pentacles by life area
A sculptor at his work in a monastery. Compare the design which illustrates the Eight of Pentacles. The apprentice or amateur therein has received his reward and is now at work in earnest.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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