Four of Pentacles

Today is a Four of Pentacles day.

I really appreciate the Four of Pentacles as someone who likes to spend money when they are feeling down and out. “Depressed people don’t own pretty things!!!!” My inner voice says to me. Tarot reminds me, a person who spends all their money on things also won’t have pretty things for long. Thanks for the reminder, Tarot.

This is the most basic reminder when it comes to the Four of Pentacles, but what else could it mean?

Boundaries

How are you at setting boundaries? I have been very bad at setting boundaries. It comes from not being allowed to when I was a child. “Well-meaning” adults in my Catholic School didn’t treat us like we were young human beings. They were just there to make sure we were returned to our parents alive (or at least alive until our after-school providers picked us up.) Any time we were uncomfortable, we were told to “grow up”, “stop crying”, “you aren’t going to make it in the real world.” Madam, I am 7 and I don’t want to sit next to someone who makes me uncomfortable in ways my young mind can not articulate.

Maybe the Four of Pentacles is reminding you to set some boundaries or reinforcing that setting boundaries is healthy.

Something I read that I try to remind myself of frequently is that boundaries are healthy, and they aren’t the same for everyone. The only people who get upset about you setting your boundaries are those who have benefitted from your lack of boundaries.

Stability

When we come from a place of lack sometimes we struggle with stability. We know what it is like when we do without and when we have our needs met it can be really hard to trust that the stability will last long. We just know that it will not last forever. We remember the waves of instability in our core. There is never actually stability only instability. We are sure of it.

The Four of Pentacles can be looking at you like “W O W. Yes, you are the Drama.” Having years of practice with instability doesn’t mean that stability is never coming and that you are less deserving. The Four of Pentacles is here to remind you that you are worthy and even to congratulate you on your newfound stability.

Instability, especially when we were younger and had no say, isn’t something that we have to live with forever. We can find balance, we can learn not just from our own mistakes, but the mistakes of others. We are worthy and capable of providing our own stability and making that stability available to others.

Sometimes Tarot is just telling you, “I see you. Good job.”