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Pentacles · Earth

Two of Pentaclesfor Pisces · Love and Relationships

Two of Pentacles tarot card

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

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On the card

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.

Upright
BalanceAdaptabilityPrioritiesJuggling

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.

Reversed

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

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.
NumberTwo
The numbers tell a story inside each suit, from a seed at the Ace to the full expression at Ten. Two is the first other: the thing meets a second thing and has to negotiate.

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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Two of Pentacles for Pisces in Love and Relationships

The Dreamer

Pentacles are the earth suit, so the Two 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 second thing has actually arrived and the negotiation between them is live.

When reading about relationships through a Pisces lens, the Two 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 moving in together. Whatever form it takes, it is becoming a two person situation.

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