tarot card meanings · minor arcana · pentacles

three of pentacles tarot card, original ink-line art

three of pentacles — tarot card meaning

The mason under the arch; craft honored, work reviewed and improved.

reversed

Working without standards or without witnesses; credit disputed.

two philosophical anchors, cited

Excellence as habit · Aristotle, NE II.1 (1103a) · after Ross

“We become just by doing just acts - craftsmanship of character and stone alike.”

The work that uses no nails · Daodejing, ch. 27 (tr. Legge)

“The skilful traveller leaves no traces; the skilful maker, no nail-holes - mastery hides its effort.”

the question we would ask

Whose honest judgment of your work do you actually seek out - and when did you last hear it?

how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.