Pentacles · Earth
Eight of Pentaclesfor Pisces · Love and Relationships
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An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies. Pentacles represents wealth and eight represents achievement. Together this card signifies a productive period and artistry.
This card signifies that your hard work is paying off-- you've put in the time and you are proud of your creations. Spend time crafting and creating. Romantically, perhaps you will find someone who has the same creative passions and/or will collaborate on a project together.
You are working hard but getting no where. A frustrating card-- you are spinning your wheels on projects that bring you satisfaction. Follow your passions and listen to your heart. Take a break.
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Eight of Pentacles for Pisces in Love and Relationships
The Dreamer
Pentacles are the earth suit, so the Eight of Pentacles sits in Capricorn. Capricorn sextiles Pisces, 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. Pisces is perfectly capable of that, which is exactly why not doing it needs a better excuse. Upright, the work is available, and it is repetitive rather than dramatic.
When reading about relationships through a Pisces lens, the Eight of Pentacles says that you feel like your partner is the mirror you check yourself against before you act, their needs are the weather system you orbit around, and love means becoming the version of you they seemed to want. This has either left you waking up one day unable to name a single preference that is actually yours, or to you exhausting yourself performing a self until the real one forgets how to speak. The thing you're not saying out loud is the thing that matters most. The Pisces blind spot in it is the moment they have to stop being useful and admit they're drowning.
In practice that can look like the practical conversation. Whatever form it takes, it is going to take unglamorous repetition.
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