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[[File:Pents08.jpg|150px|thumb|The Eight of Pentacles as depicted in the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck]]
The '''Eight of Pentacles''' is the eighth card in the suit of [[Pentacles (Tarot)|Pentacles]]. It usually stands for work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, or skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage. If indicating a person, it will be a young man, or a dark girl.

==General description==
In the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck, [[Pamela Coleman Smith]] depicts the Eight of Pentacles as an artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of trophies. [[A.E. Waite]] connects this image with that found on the [[Three of Pentacles]], and suggests they are the same artist in different phases of their career. The illustration of the card is to be taken more as a warning against the dangers of this house than as a direct descriptive image of its nature; as a sort of hint: keep to your work, do not let yourself be led astray or misguided.

==Divinatory meaning==
This card presents skill and bravery, far above the average, outdoing the commonplace, sinning against tradition but widening the views and outlook. Dexterity will ensue from it. In matters of the heart it always tends to the unusual, superhuman, exotic, wayward, strange or dreamy. That ambitions are wrecked in this house is correct in general, still the pentacles are never strong in any evil sense, and they are apt to wreck fortunes or bubble reputations rather than ambitions.

If reversed, the card can mean: Voided ambition, vanity. It may also signify the possession of skill, in the sense of the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.

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!style="background:#d7d6ff;text-align:center;"; colspan="3"|[[Tarot]] Topics''
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|style="background:#d7d6ff";text-align:center|'''[[Major Arcana]]'''
|colspan="2"|[[The Fool]] • [[The Magician]] • [[The High Priestess]] • [[The Empress]] • [[The Emperor]] • [[The Hierophant]] • [[The Lovers]] • [[The Chariot]] • [[Strength]] • [[The Hermit]] • [[Wheel of Fortune]] • [[Justice]] • [[The Hanged Man]] • [[Death]] • [[Temperance]] • [[The Devil (Tarot) |The Devil]] • [[The Tower]] • [[The Star]] • [[The Moon]] • [[The Sun]] • [[Judgement]] • [[The World]]
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|rowspan="4" style="background:#d7d6ff";text-align:center|'''[[Minor Arcana]]'''
|[[Pentacles (Tarot)|Pentacles]]
|style=text-align:left|[[Ace of Pentacles|Ace]] • [[Two of Pentacles|Two]] • [[Three of Pentacles|Three]] • [[Four of Pentacles|Four]] • [[Five of Pentacles|Five]] • [[Six of Pentacles|Six]] • [[Seven of Pentacles|Seven]] • [[Eight of Pentacles|Eight]] • [[Nine of Pentacles|Nine]] • [[Ten of Pentacles|Ten]] • [[Page of Pentacles|Page]] • [[Knight of Pentacles|Knight]] • [[Queen of Pentacles|Queen]] • [[King of Pentacles|King]]
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|[[Wands (Tarot)|Wands]]
|style=text-align:left|[[Ace of Wands|Ace]] • [[Two of Wands|Two]] • [[Three of Wands|Three]] • [[Four of Wands|Four]] • [[Five of Wands|Five]] • [[Six of Wands|Six]] • [[Seven of Wands|Seven]] • [[Eight of Wands|Eight]] • [[Nine of Wands|Nine]] • [[Ten of Wands|Ten]] • [[Page of Wands|Page]] • [[Knight of Wands|Knight]] • [[Queen of Wands|Queen]] • [[King of Wands|King]]
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|[[Cups (Tarot)|Cups]]
|style=text-align:left|[[Ace of Cups|Ace]] • [[Two of Cups|Two]] • [[Three of Cups|Three]] • [[Four of Cups|Four]] • [[Five of Cups|Five]] • [[Six of Cups|Six]] • [[Seven of Cups|Seven]] • [[Eight of Cups|Eight]] • [[Nine of Cups|Nine]] • [[Ten of Cups|Ten]] • [[Page of Cups|Page]] • [[Knight of Cups|Knight]] • [[Queen of Cups|Queen]] • [[King of Cups|King]]
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|[[Swords (Tarot)|Swords]]
|style=text-align:left|[[Ace of Swords|Ace]] • [[Two of Swords|Two]] • [[Three of Swords|Three]] • [[Four of Swords|Four]] • [[Five of Swords|Five]] • [[Six of Swords|Six]] • [[Seven of Swords|Seven]] • [[Eight of Swords|Eight]] • [[Nine of Swords|Nine]] • [[Ten of Swords|Ten]] • [[Page of Swords|Page]] • [[Knight of Swords|Knight]] • [[Queen of Swords|Queen]] • [[King of Swords|King]]
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|style="background:#d7d6ff"|'''Decks'''
|colspan="2" style=text-align:left|[[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]] • [[Tarot of Marseilles]] • [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] • [[Thoth Tarot]] • [[Occult Tarot]] • [[Angel Tarot]] • [[Vlad Dracula Tarot]] • [[Hieronymus Bosch Tarot]]
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