Western Tarot symbolism
Eight of Pentacles
The prose describes an artist in stone displaying the work as trophies. Its upright list concerns employment, craftsmanship and business skill, with a qualification that the work may still be in a preparatory stage. The reversed main account allows retained skill turned toward cunning, rather than only lack of ability. The supplementary list assigns business relations upright and a money-lending complication reversed.
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The card account
LiteraryThe prose describes an artist in stone displaying the work as trophies. Its upright list concerns employment, craftsmanship and business skill, with a qualification that the work may still be in a preparatory stage.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe reversed main account allows retained skill turned toward cunning, rather than only lack of ability. The supplementary list assigns business relations upright and a money-lending complication reversed.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies. Divinatory Meanings: Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business,Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 140
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0140
- Original scan leaf
- 146
- Recorded leaf number
- 146
- Current Reader position
- 140
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Eight.—A young man in business who has relations with the Querent; a dark girl. Reversed: The Querent will be compromised in a matter of money-lending. Seven.—ImprovedOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 152
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0152
- Original scan leaf
- 158
- Recorded leaf number
- 158
- Current Reader position
- 152
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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