A young gardener leans upon his plow staring disappointingly at his yield of growing pentacles.
Gauging his expression you’d think they were nothing but a measly bunch of grapes on the vine, lacking the delicious satisfaction of being fully grown or ready for picking.
Yet his crops are growing well and at the rate they should be growing—but he cannot rush this process any further and the fact that he is eyeing them as if willing them to grow through sheer force of will is perhaps the root of his dissatisfaction.
This is the Seven of Pentacles our card of the week, pulled yet again by my mother who keeps coincidentally choosing pentacles for Taurus season.
I’ve got a lot to talk about regarding this card so let’s dive straight in. I can’t wait.
Keywords for the Seven of Pentacles
✦ You Can’t Rush Time
✦ Embracing the Present
✦ Surrendering to the Process
Advice from the Seven of Pentacles
You can’t rush or outpace the strenuous nature of the process, the same way you can’t do one sit up and expect rippling abs like Fabio Lanzoni posing on the cover of a 80s romance novel.
As an impatient psychopath I have to remind myself of this fact often—and now I’m here to remind you as well, because it’s true.
You can’t rush your way to your dreams.
I often find myself wanting to skip to the good part where I’ve already reached my goal, the champagne has been poured, the confetti has rained down, followed by copious amounts of applause, and I’ve finally been crowned as the “Winner of Overcoming My Own Circumstances and Challenges”.
I especially feel this way when I’ve been working really hard on something, showing up everyday, giving it my all, emptying out all of my sweat blood and tears only to be met with the most modest pain-staking increments of progress vs the quantumn leaps I had been evisioning, praying on, and manifesting for as if I already have it in the present.
It can sting when you want to reach a goal so badly and the path to getting there feels like pulling teeth. The Seven of Pentacles knows this very well.
The lad pictured in the card has been doing nearly everything right, he’s tilled the soil to prepare for a productive season of growth, planted the seeds, watered them, and tended to them rain or shine with the hopes that his yield will reach maturation and the promise of harvest day.
What he did not take into account is that he cannot will them to grow any faster than they already are—he’s not in control of the timing despite the fact that he’s doing everything he needs to be doing in order to ensure his success, yet knowing this why does he still seem so dissatisfied?
In many ways we have to learn to respect the flow of time as it is actively unfolding and the pace it is going at. In trying to control that precious stream of moments in order to reach another moment where we’ve achieved X, Y, or Z we stray even further from the gift of the present.
You’ll only ever be in this specific phase of your life once and wouldn’t you rather enjoy every passing second of getting there? Compared to blurring past these precious vignettes of lived experiences for a goal that will inevitably transition into another goal?
If you can’t find joy in the here in now—in the process of growing in whatever stage your at how you ever be able to find satisfaction at any point if not now?
That’s the trick of the Seven of Pentacles:
Can you practice finding contentment in the here and now on the path towards your goals?
If you know your garden is growing everyday why are you so worried about getting to the harvest?
Half the joy of planting seeds is watching them grow a little bit everyday, and to watch their progress flourish as they reach to grasp the Sun’s rays, so why is it so difficult to apply that same magical thinking to your life?
The day of harvest is inevitable because the present you is making sure it is so through your diligence to keep watering and nourishing your goals into reality, but try to enjoy the wild ride of life at the same time rather than yearning for a moment that is already on it’s way.
Seven of Pentacles Reflection Prompt
Feel free to revisit this prompt throughout the week or towards the end as you reflect on how The Seven of Pentacle’s energy has guided, manifested, and inspired you.
✦ How can you infuse more patience and presence into the present? How can you bring the impatient parts of your mind back to the now while continuing to work towards the future?
Also before we part let me know how this message resonated or manifests for you in the upcoming week! I love hearing folk’s unique insights!
With that said I hope you have a wonderfully enchanted and smooth-flowing week and I’ll see you in our next reading!
Till Next Time, Mythical One,
Ayame (あやめ)
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