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Six of Pentaclesfor Libra · Self and Identity

Six of Pentacles tarot card

"Generosity isn't the question. What you do next is."

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On the card

A Robinhood like card, about giving to the needy and distressed. It is a testimony to success in life, but also goodness of heart. Pentacles represents wealth and the six card represents balance after stress. Together they signify giving back to those who need it and remembering your own humble beginnings.

Upright
GenerosityCharityGiving and ReceivingBalance of Resources

You have reached a level of success where you can look back at your achievments and give back to others. Find people who are down on their luck that you can mentor or help. Don't get caught up on being paid back or paying back everyone who helped you-- the act of giving can be reward enough.

Reversed

You are focusing on yourself and what you can get from a situation (or are doing business/in a relationship with someone who is heavily self interested). Tit-for-tat mentality can mean you don't act in accordance with your values (and it's petty). Create some boundaries to not let yourself be fooled into scarcity.

Its place in the deck.

Minor ArcanaNumber card
One of the 56 Minor Arcana. They are about what is happening in ordinary life right now. Each belongs to one of four suits, numbered Ace to Ten, plus four court cards.
SuitPentacles · Earth
Pentacles are the suit of Earth: matter and time. A Pentacles card is always, underneath, about the body, the money, the calendar, the actual physical situation.
NumberSix
The numbers tell a story inside each suit, from a seed at the Ace to the full expression at Ten. Six is the recovery: movement after the loss, with the loss still in the room.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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EarthElement
Your body, health, money, and the physical. In tarot: Pentacles.
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Six of Pentacles for Libra in Self and Identity

The Harmonizer

Pentacles are the earth suit, so the Six of Pentacles sits in Capricorn. Capricorn squares Libra, so the card asks for the move Libra is least fluent in: change one concrete arrangement this week. The friction is the content, not an obstacle to it. Upright, the recovery is underway with the loss still in the room.

When reading about yourself through a Libra lens, the Six of Pentacles says that you feel like you are a collection of versions that other people have seen in you, a thing that must stay balanced or it will tip into being unlikeable, and something you do not fully trust without external confirmation. This has either kept you from knowing what you actually like, or forced you to become very clear about who you are precisely by refusing to be a mirror anymore. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Libra blind spot in it is being the one who breaks the tie, names the problem, or asks for something first.

In practice that can look like a routine that finally sticks, or the body asking for the basics. Whatever form it takes, it is recovering, with the loss still in the room.

Somewhere else?

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