“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Patience, Goals, Evaluation, Waiting for results of sustained efforts
Overview
Assessing and Analyzing value, progress; forward planning
Look at everything you’ve done! You’ve achieved so much, congratulations. Yet there still seems to be so much more work to do.
This is a card that says look at where you’ve been and where you’ll be. You’re analyzing all the progress you’ve put into something and planning your next steps. Whether you’re nearly done with a goal and looking for the next steps in your endeavor, or you are wondering if everything was for naught, you are looking on progress and assessing where to go next.
Symbolism
A farmer or gardener leans wearily on his hoe, gazing thoughtfully at a bush heavy with seven large golden pentacles. He appears to be assessing his long-term investment or labor. The background is a simple green field under a pale sky, conveying patience, evaluation, waiting for results, and reflection on progress.
Meaning
Patience
Goals
Evaluation
Waiting for results of sustained efforts
Before the final wrap, it is wise to compare your final result to your original vision. If it’s not determined what you need to bring it up to standard. Everyone has a typical outline, or draft to begin with; during the creative process we stray. Sometimes, we lose sight of the original idea all together or it can lead to greatness. It can be what makes or breaks a project.
The next decisions made in your process is as imperative as this moment of stagnancy and analysis. Take a minute to see what could be made better. Start the plan to your final product as meticulously as you can, and it will materialize exactly as you had imagined.
Meaning
Things have been coming together slowly as you see the effort and energy you have put into this endeavor creating a life all of its own. This is a critical point of growth which requires tact and care to create successful fruits of labor. It’s time to determine what has worked and what hasn’t up until this point. This card is well symbolized by ‘Evaluation’.
It’s a review of an enterprise in its entirety. Reflect on where this all started, where you wanted it to go. Did things ever go off course? Are you where you expected to be?
More importantly, is your dream still the same or has it changed, and how much are you willing to compromise your original ideal?
This is the big step in the future, where you decide what to do next. It indicates you’re taking stock, considering going back to school. You’re thinking of going for bigger things.
Imagine a company going public on the stock market. This is the moment where you start making moves to get to that next level.
The Seven of Pentacles Reversed
The trouble is, you think you have time.”
— Buddha
Impatient, wasted effort, Second guessing investments, loss cost policy
Overview
Either you’re impatient for results or you’re wasting your time— the plans you have are hot air. There’s a world called culmination, it’s the highest point of something reached after al long time of sustained efforts. Even though you’ve reached the conclusion of your work, your climax will come in the recognition of all the work you’ve put forth.
Meaning
