7 of Pentacles is a card of waiting. It is often a card we pull when we are impatient for something to come to fruition that just needs more time. That it’s depicted in the RWS* deck and so many others as a person contemplating their garden is very resonate: you can’t hurry along a harvest. It comes when it comes, and is influenced by so many factors along the way. There is only so much effort you can put into a plant to help determine its yield; the rest is out of your hands. In all Tarot 7s I think we are *hungry* for something. I’ve often used the word ‘longing’ for the 7s of the Minor Arcana. We are seeking fulfillment in this energy, and so being told to “just be patient” can be very frustrating! When this card comes up in a reading, it has the potential to increase our agitation for that “thing” we’re waiting for, but it can also be very soothing. It tells us that we’ve done what we can do, and now we should simply step back and trust that the growth process is underway.

*Rider-Waite-Smith, the deck pictured here and the illustrations of which most modern decks base theirs upon