Seven of Pentacles
Pause and assess your crop. Patience will bring the harvest.
- Card
- Minor Arcana · Pentacles (Earth)
- Upright keywords
- Waiting for growth, Assessment, Patience, Halfway
- Reversed keywords
- Impatience, Not enough effort, No results, Wasted effort
- Yes or no
- Depends on conditions
Traditional correspondences Golden Dawn: Lord of Success Unfulfilled / Thoth: Failure / 3rd decan of Taurus · Saturn / Sephirah: Netzach (Victory)
Upright meaning
Halfway there. Assess your progress and be patient.
A farmer leans on his hoe and looks at a bush full of pentacles, thinking. The Seven of Pentacles is assessment and patience: you’ve worked hard, results are growing, but the harvest isn’t ready. Upright, take stock and keep going.
Reversed meaning
Impatience or effort without results. Reassess.
Reversed, frustration grows. Results may not come, or your efforts may be misdirected. Rethink your approach.
For ways of reading reversed cards, see how to read reversals.
Love
A relationship growing slowly.
Feeling the effort isn’t paying off.
Work
Long-term investments of effort.
Impatience or wasted effort.
Money
Investments growing slowly.
Poor returns.
Relationships
Patience in friendships.
Frustration.
Health
Steady improvement.
Slow progress.
Tarot does not diagnose physical conditions. If you have symptoms that worry you, please see a doctor.
Mind and spirit
Reflection and patience.
Discouragement.
As a person
A patient, hard-working person.
Someone impatient.
Timing
Results take time; expect months. In the calendar, mid May is also a guide (roughly May 11–20).
Advice
Be patient and keep tending.
Reassess your approach.
Questions to ask yourself
- What have I been growing?
- Is it on track?
- What needs adjusting?
A common misreading
The Seven of Pentacles isn’t failure. It is the pause to assess before the harvest.
The story of this card
Seven tests patience: earth grows slowly.
The Waite deck’s picture and symbols
In the Waite deck a young farmer leans on his hoe, looking at a vine bearing seven pentacles.
History and differences between traditions
The Golden Dawn named it Lord of Success Unfulfilled. Crowley called it Failure.
Words for today
My efforts are growing.
I adjust and keep going.