Pentacles · Earth
Two of Pentaclesfor Aries · Self and Identity
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A young man, in the act of dancing, has a pentacle in either hand, and they are joined by that endless cord which is like the number 8 reversed. Pentacles represents wealth and the two card represents balance. Together this card signifies that you must balance your priorities to continue your journey towards prosperity. Balance here meaning that some things will fall to the back when something else comes to the foreground.
When you are juggling, sometimes balls drop. You cannot always keep everything up, they must come back down. The two of pentacles calls us to decide ahead of time which ball we will drop. Sometimes this means prioritizing work over a relationship. If you are juggling multiple partners, responsibilities or commitments this card advises you to pick carefully what to focus on.
You've been balancing so many things for so long and forcing yourself to focus on everything. This is wearing you out and you feel you cannot let anything drop. Tensions are high and you are making mistakes or doing things that are unaligned with what you value. You must let some things drop so that you can continue to grow the things that will bring you true prosperity
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Two of Pentacles for Aries in Self and Identity
The Initiator
Pentacles are the earth suit, so the Two of Pentacles sits in Capricorn. Capricorn squares Aries, so the card asks for the move Aries is least fluent in: change one concrete arrangement this week. The friction is the content, not an obstacle to it. Upright, the second thing has actually arrived and the negotiation between them is live.
When reading about yourself through an Aries lens, the Two of Pentacles says that you feel like your body is a machine to prove something with, a problem to outrun (or overcome), and the only thing you trust because it does what you tell it to. This has either made you physically strong and brave enough to try what others won't, or left you injured and angry at your own body for not cooperating with your will. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Aries blind spot in it is the feeling that nothing you do makes any difference, that you are not the center of the story.
In practice that can look like a routine that finally sticks, or the body asking for the basics. Whatever form it takes, it is becoming a two person situation.
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