Eight of Coins / Pentacles
Eight of Coins indicates someone is learning how to make it look easy.
In a tarot reading, it is about the inquirer (querent), someone close to the inquirer, or a hidden aspect within the inquirer that needs to be acknowledged for the inquirer to reach their highest consciousness. The happiness the inquirer is seeking can be found by answering a question:
Why is sharing knowledge important (or not)?
It is import to consider that this is a Minor Arcana card (pip card), which carries a message that signifies an event that impacts your immediate past and future. When it appears the universe wants you to focus on the need for apprenticing.
Don’t let the set structure of the Tarot distract you from its primary use as an intuitive divination tool. Use the keywords, images, and symbols of the card to tap into your intuition and deeper inner knowing.
Eight of Coins
Upright= Acquiring Expertise
Reversal=Problematic Perfectionism
Element= Earth (which influences responsibility and obligations).
Yes or no=This card is it typically decided by the intuition of the reader.
OCHO DE OROS
VERTICAL= EXPERTO
INVERTIDA= PERFECCIONISMO PROBLEMÁTICO
Eight of Coins holds Primary Zodiac influence for Virgo, and the Elemental Zodiac relates to Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.
The signs are less important than the traits they represent because a person has sun, moon and rising signs, and one or more of these is often unknown to the tarot reader. The zodiac for this card relates to traits of collecting, precision, and pragmatism. And, planetary concepts of confidence are seen with: the SUN.
Note: These traditional tarot-astrology references are based on concepts commonly attributed to the secret society knows as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn from the turn of the 20th century.
Eight of Coins, like all cards, is part of a cycle of beginning, middle, and end. The stage of this event is Mutable (End), and may be related to September and the energy of Late Summer.
The cards refer to identified traits and energies that balance each other out as opposite but interconnected forces. Some cards are grammatically gendered or depict age. This does not refer to actual biological gender or physical years. Masculine and feminine traits, and levels of maturity, exist in all of us.
Tarot Decks
The image above shows two different decks. The original Rider–Waite tarot deck for tarot card reading, also known as the Waite–Smith, or Rider–Waite–Smith, or Rider tarot deck is the most popular version of cards used today. Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, based on the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite, the cards were originally published by the Rider Company in 1909. This deck has long been the gold-standard for learning tarot.
The Lightworker’s Tarot Deck, also shown here, is a beginner deck that uses many of the symbols and colors used in the Rider–Waite deck but also provides modern imagery designed for a rapid sensory-intuition response by today’s new generation of readers. A reader should select a deck based on what feels right for them.
