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

Pentacles · VII

Seven of Pentacles

Lord of Success Unfulfilled

The face of Seven of Pentacles, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Lord of Success Unfulfilled.

The harvest is coming, slower than you hoped. Tend it and wait.

Upright

Patience, long-term view and investment. Assessing the harvest.

Reversed

Impatience, or effort with little return.

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The spirit work

In the Goetia, Forneus gives a good name by day; Cimejes finds lost things by night. Ask what will be ready in its own season.

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Correspondences

DecanSaturn in Taurus, 20° to 30°, the third face
Tree of LifeNetzach in Assiah
Governing angelsHarahel by day, Mitzrael by night
Image of the decanA man holding a serpent and a dart.
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Day spiritForneus, marquis
The seal of Forneus

Appears as a great sea monster. Teaches rhetoric and tongues, gives a good name, makes one loved by foes. Goetia 30.

Night spiritCimejes, marquis
The seal of Cimejes

Appears as a valiant warrior on a black horse. Teaches grammar, logic and rhetoric; finds things lost and hidden treasure. Goetia 66.

Seven 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.