Welcome to My Tiny Tarot Practice, a podcast where we explore the tarot card by card, starting with the suits of the Minor Arcana. I'm your host Amelia Hruby, and this show documents

my tiny tarot practice, as I am learning the meanings of the cards, both some popular interpretations and mostly my own thoughts. Today's card is The Night of Pentacles.

In the Rider-Waite-Smith edition of the Tarot, the Knight of Pentacles features a knight, seated on a horse, holding a coin or a pentacle in front of them and kind of staring beyond it.

Into the distance. This knight, you know, throughout the Tarot, the knights are cards of action, they're very active cards. And it's notable then that this night is like very still,

like the horse is still, the night is still, there's definitely a sense of stillness and rootedness in this card. And so I think of the nine of Pentacles as an invitation or an invocation to root deeper into the material, into the world.

Into our bodies, into ritual, into that which has lasted a long time, into our ancestry, to our history, into our behavior.

There are so many different ways we can go deeper.

We can grow roots.

And that's how I think of the night. This card is sometimes referred to as the builder, which I think I learned from Rachel Pollock's 78 Degrees of Wisdom.

Jessica Crispin in The Creative Tarot talks about it as a card of cultivating physical discipline.

Similarly, Jessica Dorr in Tarot for Change talks about this card as one of staying the course of being patient, of being a bolder.

I like how she puts it. card in my sense of rooting deeper, it is also about stillness. You could use this card as a sign to take up a meditation practice if you like, but I think it's really about.

Choosing depth over forward motion. Not that going deeper isn't a forward motion, but perhaps it's a much less visible one, right? Like many of the Knights in that very active

stance, they're so visible, they're moving around a lot. You can really see their energy and the cards. And this one is so still. Often when we root deeper, that is invisible to

the world around us. We can think of the mycelial networks of trees or mushrooms and the way is that so much is happening in those root systems, but it's not visible to those of us who only live on the surface.

And so.

That's the night of Pentacles to me, an invocation to root deeper, an opportunity to release the cultural narratives around progress as visible achievement. And a moment where we're invited to step into the practice of devotion. If you listen to

the episode on the page of Pentacles, it's, I talked about that card as a moment of learning that we're capable of devotion of taking the first step toward that. And this is a card

of the practice of it. You know, devotion is a deepening practice. And so that's what the Night of Pentecost invites us into.

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I hope that you spend some time ruminating on and with the night of pentacles today, and maybe, just maybe, being like a boulder.