Tarot reading for dealing with life’s practicalities

Getting the two of pentacles as an advice card in a tarot reading isn’t a card that makes me leap for joy because suggests you might be in a bit of a holding pattern and have to juggle your options and address the practicalities of your situation.

Even though released from Devil territory of last week, the Two of Pentacles reminds us that it’s still not plain sailing, we still have restrictions to tackle. Pentacles in tarot represent the material aspects of life; it can literally be limitations in energy, money, or resources that might need a bit of juggling.

At the two level in the tarot system, it is about examining your choices so you can make a decision and move on with a firmer footing. Your ship hasn’t come in (see the picture of the 2 of pentacles) and keeping two balls up in the air requires a certain steadiness. It’s not an expansive card, it’s more a card of accepting limitations and managing them.

I am cheered however by the figure eight weaving between the balls.  The figure 8 is powerful in energy medicine, because its the way energy is supposed to move and weaving together in cross over patterns signifies health and wholeness, also, the eight is also the symbol of alchemy ….transmutation.

It is quite a skill to be able to juggle, an art in fact, to keep movable objects from falling to the ground.  I was feeling a certain ambivalence and frustration about everything being unresolved and up in the air. 

So I like being reminded that there is an artistry to actively juggling practicalities and limitations and so I am going to approach my day by accepting it’s going to be a day of getting down to practicalities, as well as invite the element of Alchemy into the situation at hand to encourage things to magically transform.  I do hope so then I’ll be able to move swiftly on to the three of pentacles.

At the 3 level in Tarot , a plan can be made, the necessary resources and people involved, and we have a firm foundation from which to build…

And reflecting on the message of this card, I am so grateful for the two of pentacles as I really got stuck into the nitty gritty of a situation. I had been feeling uncharacteristically ambivalent about whether there was the possibility of a good outcome. However because of the advise of the card, with renewed tenacity and an awareness that alchemy was at hand to weave its energy of harmony and flow between us, I tried to embrace more of a steady lightness of touch, just as the hands of the juggler, and progress has been made. What a difference a day makes. I feel we are getting there. Not quite at the three level yet but I feel our ship is going to come in.