“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” — Lou Holtz
Balance, adaptability, managing multiple responsibilities.
Overview
Spiritual and Material Equilibrium
Balance is essential for all areas of our lives. In this sense, you are balancing not only materials, but something else. Typically, this is your spiritual or religious affairs, but can also be your money and self-care, your responsibilities and your leisure.
This balance is essential to create a full life, and so one thing doesn’t suffer to the other. If you put all your pentacles into your work but none into your family, they suffer. If you focus on yourself and not your work, nothing gets done. Find the middle and balance on that tight rope to find your greatest success.
Symbolism
A young man in a red hat and tunic juggles two large golden pentacles connected by an green infinity loop (lemniscate). He stands with one foot raised, balancing on a wavy, turbulent sea with ships bobbing in the background. The sky is bright yellow, and his posture is dynamic yet controlled, conveying adaptability amid change or juggling priorities.
Meaning
Balance
Managing multiple responsibilities.
Either you need to balance your resources, or you are struggling to do so. There could be an imbalance where you are spending all of your time working and still suffering, or that your material responsibilities are being met under very tight parameters. A decision may need to be made between something that you really want and something you desperately need. It can also be a determination between career paths.
Take Stock
Take stock of where you are now and where you want to be. Figure out the difference between what is necessary for your survival and what is a luxury. How much of your burden is necessary, and how much is desired?
A message of money
This card can also indicate a message about money could be making its way to you in written or digital form, especially if pages or knights are present.
Adapting and Budgeting
Just like when any new start, you are on a fine line with your finances; budgeting hard and sacrificing some of your simpler pleasures. You’re not uncomfortable, or struggling but you do wish you had more.
In fact, you need more, and you’re aware that you can’t stay like this forever.
Thin ice
The ice is so thin, you are afraid to wander and search for more. Perhaps you’re juggling all your side-hustles and your current profession that there’s no time. In fact, you feel tight on time as well.
This card symbolizes the perfect balancing act between resources, comfort and management.
Spiritual / material
It can also call for the balance between material and spiritual pursuits. Spend less time at work and more time taking care of yourself if you are in a position to do so financially. Chasing money is fun until Money becomes a ball and chain. Manage your finances and go back to living within your means.
Two Of Pentacles Reversed
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
-Will Rogers
Overwhelmed, imbalance, burnout, too much on plate
Overview
This is a caution that something in your life is out of balance. You maybe holding too many responsibilities, too much power, wealth, but refusing to invest in the internal things that make life fulfilling. In due time a crack will break into your life and a whirl pool will suck all the joy out of everything if you don’t find the balance today.
You are falling from grace when it comes to your finances. There might be a call for help, or the need for financial assistance when you’ve been doing things on your own for so long. People see you trying, and they are not bothered to help you, if they have the resources.
Meaning
Overwhelmed
You are overwhelmed with your to-do’s or your lack of resources to pay the bills. Despite your best efforts, it maybe time to trim the fat and tighten the belt loops. Look for more affordable ways to survive.
Burnout
Coffee can only provide so much for you now, you’re going to crash and burn if you don’t take care of yourself. Your mind is scattering, your focus is wavering. Take some time to re-determine what you need, and then do the things to make yourself well again.
Imbalance
You maybe spending too much time or money in your responsibilities and not enough on yourself. The card in this position calls for assessing your goals and delegating to get some rest. There is a lot going on all the time, and you’re pulling more than your fair share of weight.
Scattered energy
Because of this scattered attention and energy you are losing sight of any plan or organization that you had. Let everything fall for one second, and take stock on what you can and can’t do. There are solutions to these problems.
Emergency Planning
It also urges the need for an emergency plan for catastrophes like these. Make sure you do not get thrown off the bull again.
Financial miscalculation
There could be an unplanned material miscalculation that will throw you off kilter. Ask for help if you need to
