Eight of Pentacles
Minor Arcana · Pentacles · Earth · Sun in Virgo
Upright
Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage.
Reversed
Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. It may also signify the possession of skill, in the sense of the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.
The picture
An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies.
Correspondences
Book T title
Lord of Prudence
Meanings quoted from A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), public domain. Correspondences follow the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's Book T.