The Card of the Day: The Three of Pentacles (Reversed)
“Reviewing old lessons.”
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The Three of Pentacles depicts a young man learning a trade at a monastery. This card symbolizes the refinement of skills or talents. The Three of Pentacles exemplifies work that is worthwhile and meaningful. In order to excel at it, you must be patient with the learning process. This means being open to making mistakes, and not giving up when setbacks happen.
What skills are you currently learning? Are you expecting yourself to be perfect? Do you constantly compare your skills to that of others and feel that your abilities aren't good enough?
Although the Three of Pentacles symbolizes "perfecting" a skill, it does not require us to be perfect. Quite the opposite, this card asks you to look at the big picture. Look how far you've already come with what you are learning. Look ahead to what can still achieve! Improvement can only happen if you are open to learning. No matter how good you are at your talent or skillset, you can always get better.
In the learning process, mistakes will be your best teachers. Mastering anything is all about trial and error. You will make mistakes. The more mistakes you make, the better you will get. You might feel like you look stupid occasionally, but don't give up. If you keep doing the work, you will achieve your goal.
The learning process is never a straight "B-line" toward a goal. It is a winding path, of hills and valleys. Sometimes the path loops around and makes us feel as if we are going backwards and learning nothing at all. This is an illusion. Like a spiral, the path winds around and back, and yet always upward. Sometimes success isn't achieved right away. It’s as if the Universe wants us to learn something important about where we are right now, without rushing on to the next thing. Are you impatient to get this phase in your life over with? Slow down! You are missing an important teachable moment. Sometimes, the thing we are learning isn’t academic, but an important life-lesson. The Three of Pentacles always highlights an area for self-improvement.
Recall your passion for the skills you are honing. The Three of Pentacles can also foretell beginning an area of study, or the acquisition of important knowledge which will have long-term implications for your future. Be patient with the learning process.
When the Three of Pentacles appears reversed, it asks you to identify what life lesson you seem to be repeating. Repetition will highlight one of the big lessons you're here to work on while you are on this planet. Instead of getting frustrated...or just wanting to get the lesson over with, you must absorb what the present lesson is teaching you.
Perhaps you are struggling with learning to finally accept yourself and where you’re at. Perhaps you are learning patience. Maybe the frustration surrounding the skill, craft or job you are perfecting is mirroring the self-improvement going on within. Accepting yourself without having achieved perfection is a tough lesson for many. Remember... the process of perfecting yourself never results in being perfect. If you are making an effort to improve yourself every day, that is enough to feel proud of.
We are all here to learn. Everybody is engaged in at least one learning process or another. Learning keeps us mentally engaged with life and enables us to evolve and grow. Learning involves setbacks, mistakes, disappointments, surprises, successes, and failures.
The Three of Pentacles reversed can illuminate the hard lessons, where the greatest evolution for your soul is occurring. Never give up. Choose to view your life lessons with compassion. You may not always see it...but you are getting better, wiser and stronger every day.
*Three of Pentacles (Reversed) in a Love reading:
New Relationship
The person you are inquiring about is stuck on their own repeated life lesson. They appear to have learned nothing from their past experience. It is not your job to teach this person or to perpetually wait for them to grow up. This card can also advise you to stop repeating a habitual relationship cycle that’s been causing you heartache.
Long Term Partnership
The Three of Pentacles reversed can illuminate hard relationship lessons that you and your partner have been repeating for too long. The past must be learned from, and destructive cycles must be broken. Conditions can only improve through mutual effort. If one partner is not committed, then the past will just continue to repeat itself.
Seeking Romance
You are ready to try a different approach when it comes to dating. Instead of chasing after another person to feel comfortable in your own skin, it’s time to invest in yourself. Upright or reversed, the Three of Pentacles encourages you toward self-improvement. By achieving your own success, you are more likely to attract someone who also has their life in order.
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