Pentacles · Earth
Ace of Pentaclesfor Scorpio · Work and Career
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A hand--issuing from a cloud--holds up a pentacle. Pentacles signify wealth, stability and groundedness (earth elements) and the ace represents the start of a new journey. Together, this card signifies the start of a new grounded path to wealth or prosperity.
A windfall in your life (a gift, a bonus, an inheritance) that allows you to start a new journey. In a romantic sense, perhaps a new person is coming into your life that will lead to great financial stability (a power couple, a person who helps you find your own potential or person who will be quite wealthy). A new job that might lead to huge/new kind of opportunity..
An unearned windfall has come into your life and it's exposed a more dark side of yourself. Remember this gift was meant to start you on the journey not be the end of it (it's the ace of pentacles afterall). Don't fall back to 'i'll marry rich' or thinking others will provide for you without you putting in effort. Do the hard work so you can take advantage the luck the universe can provide you!
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Ace of Pentacles for Scorpio in Work and Career
The Transformer
Pentacles are the earth suit, so the Ace of Pentacles sits in Capricorn. Capricorn sextiles Scorpio, which is help that has to be taken up rather than help that arrives. What it asks for is this: change one concrete arrangement this week. Scorpio is perfectly capable of that, which is exactly why not doing it needs a better excuse. An ace is a seed rather than a result. Upright it means the thing is genuinely available and completely untested.
When reading about work through a Scorpio lens, the Ace of Pentacles says that you feel like work is where you need to know the financial truth before anyone else does, a problem to solve (or a power to hold), and something you will not announce until you are certain. This has either led to you becoming the person who understands the money and the leverage, or to you refusing to enter the room where decisions are made. You have not asked yourself what you actually want from this work, only what you think you should want from it. The Scorpio blind spot in it is the feeling of being fooled, or of being seen as naive, or of depending on someone who will leave.
In practice that can look like a contract landing. Whatever form it takes, it is just arriving and has not been tested yet.
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