An empty crossroads on a heath at night, a leaning signpost and poppy heads in the verge.

Pentacles · VIII

Eight of Pentacles

Lord of Prudence

The face of Eight of Pentacles, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Lord of Prudence.

Small, daily attention is the real magic. Keep refining the work.

Upright

Apprenticeship, repetition and mastery through practice.

Reversed

Perfectionism, or skill without purpose.

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The spirit work

In the Goetia, Samigina teaches the liberal sciences by day; Raum tells all things by night. Daily practice is the working here.

Where the card sits

Correspondences

DecanSun in Virgo, 0° to 10°, the first face
Tree of LifeHod in Assiah
Governing angelsAchaiah by day, Cahetel by night
Image of the decanA good maid, and a man casting seeds.
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Day spiritSamigina, marquis
The seal of Samigina

Appears as a little horse or ass, then a man, speaking hoarsely. Teaches the liberal sciences and gives account of souls who died in sin. Goetia 4.

Night spiritRaum, earl
The seal of Raum

Appears as a crow, then a man. Takes treasure, destroys dignities, tells all things and reconciles friends and foes. Goetia 40.

Eight of Pentacles in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Notes on sources

The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.