Eight of Pentacles
Correspondences
- Sephirah: Hod
- Element: earth
- Zodiac: Virgo
- Decan: 1st decan of Virgo
- Thoth Title: Prudence
Meanings
Rider-Waite-Smith
Reversed
Keywords: Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.
Upright
Keywords: Skill, bravery, capacity, defence, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin. There is therefore a sense in which the card signifies death, but it carries this meaning only in its proximity to other cards of fatality.
Thoth / Crowley-Harris
Upright
Keywords: Sun in Virgo; flowering internal and external richness; wisdom, development, carefulness, prudence
Flowering richness both internal and external. Wisdom, careful development, and prudent investment of energy.
Number 8: Intellect
Analysis, communication, attention to detail. The element rationalized.
Narrative position: refinement