Hello and welcome to my tiny tarot practice I'm your host Amelia Hruby and this is my tiny tarot practice our card by card exploration of the tarot.

Starting with the minor Arcana today's card is the four of Pentacles.

And the rider Waite Smith edition of tarot the tarot the for of Pentacles features a person

wearing a crown wrapped in a luxurious garmin's Seated on what appears to be a throne in front of a city

and they have a pentacle on top of their head in their arms which are wrapped above and below the pentacle in front of their chest and then a pentacle under each foot.

These Pentacles then kind of trace the figure we've got the top the center of the bottom but they also do appear to really almost like a protective Force like they're blocking the head the chest the feet so that nothing quite

touches are vital centers don't quite touch the Earth or anything else.

As a result tarot interpreters like Rachel Pollock see this has a card of selfishness I would say even perhaps of hoarding and just a Crispin also talks about how this can be a card of restriction Jessica door refers to it as a card about

blocks and talks about how it just looks blocked this person looks like a block then they are black.

You know these are my favorites Taro books or writers of authors of tarot books that I'm always referencing on this podcast and.

It was interesting when I turn to their interpretations of the four of Pentacles

I didn't quite resonate for me I have to be honest I do think this is a card about the.

Precariousness of security maybe that's how I want to say it the four of Pentacles feels like a card about security to me and security can be

beautiful and supportive security can be about being resource so that we can be supportive being supported in order to be supportive being served in order to be of service.

But security can also be about being blocked it can block us from.

Deep connection it can block us from blissett can block us from openness to the world that actually brings in the joy.

And the grief that comes alongside being I want to say like naked to our experiences

but maybe it's just more about being open to what the world brings us and so in this card we do see this figure kind of hunched over kind of constricted feels like they're wrapped around themselves and their Pentacles.

But um I don't think they look unhappy when I look at their face it seems kind of serene so I'm not so willing to make a judgment

about the emotional or moral nature of this card I think upon

pulling it in a reading I would invite myself or invite you to think about the role that security is playing in my life at that time or the role that discipline or restriction is playing in my life because sometimes discipline can be exactly the medicine we need and sometimes it can be an oppressive force that

is harming us.

And often it's up to us to know the difference and that can be so hard to attune to mean many of my favorite thinkers and practitioners talk about discipline as a devotion.

And I think that those two can intertwine and be so beautiful and that's how this card opt-in feels to me.

We can be disciplined in relationship to our resources we can be devoted to being resource and that can be positive or negative and our lives.

Being disciplined and relationship to our resources can be about creating the safety that we need to be free in the world or it can be miserly and

you really stuck and inconsiderate of others

you know it's not up to the Taro or to me to judge what's the case for you but this card I think invites those questions invites us to think about structure about discipline about security

perhaps especially in relationship to resources are material resources are energetic resources are physical resources has with the Pentacles.

And some of us when we ask those questions will decide we need more discipline and some of us will decide we need less some of those wanting to be more devoted and some of us might perhaps need to break free.

Some of us might only break three through becoming more devoted.

What a beautiful lesson it's one of the core tensions of my life of my astrological chart and I'm so glad to spend this time with the four of Pentacles and to see this card in a different way to have tapped into it with a different.

For a different medicine.

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