Seven of Pentacles
7 (The Motive: imagination, inner work, psychology)
Keywords
- assessment
- evaluation
- re-evaluation
- reflection
Upright meanings
- Measuring progress toward your goal
- Looking at results with an eye toward improving performance
- Asking, "How happy am I?"
- Coming up with ideas for improving your health or prosperity
- Deciding it's time for a change
- Expressing an honest opinion
Reversed meanings
- Becoming distracted by melancholy thoughts
- Longing for "the good old days"
- Beating yourself up over lost opportunities
- Judging your own work harshly
- Holding others to inappropriate standards
- Refusing to take part in a project, then whining about the quality of the outcome
Fortune telling
- Things won't work out as expected
- Pick up the pieces and prepare to move on
Questions to ask
- To what extent have I fulfilled my own expectations?
- What are the terms of success?
- How can I be happier with the progress I've made?