Dodal, linked reproduction
Huit de Deniers
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗Care repeated
Repeated objects become workmanship in one image and cultivation in another.
Start with the pictures
Eight of Pentacles
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 267
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Huit de Deniers
Eight coins stand in two columns of four. A long central plant and its curling branches separate and connect the repeated pairs.
Smith
Eight of Pentacles
A seated craftworker uses tools on a pentacle. Finished examples hang vertically nearby, with another on the ground.
Harris
Eight of Disks · 8
Eight red-and-gold flower-like disks grow from a branching dark stem. They stand out against a bright yellow field, with roots or lower branches visible below.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite places the card in work, practice and developing skill. He allows a preparatory stage here and later compares the figure with the more established worker in the Three.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley calls this Prudence and describes intelligence carefully applied to material work. His Sun-in-Virgo account allows the disks to be understood as flowers or fruit of a well-rooted tree.
What kind of attention would keep this repeated work or growth healthy?
Write one thing you can point to in the image, one interpretation from a named author, and one inference of your own. Keeping the three separate gives you something useful to revisit.
Sources and image credits
The Dodal cards are one early-eighteenth-century Marseille witness. The black-and-white Smith plates come from the 1922 Rider reprint, whose title verso lists first publication in 1910. Colours in later editions can differ.
Foolmade supplies the linked Dodal reproductions. Its surrounding commentary is not the basis for our historical claims. These images are linked externally; the Smith illustration reuses the public-domain source scan with its full page context.
Harris’s paintings are linked on their host’s reference pages. Crowley’s text is the separately identified Thelemagick transcription of The Book of Thoth. Neither a modern reproduction nor a transcription replaces examination of the original artwork or edition.