Waite–Smith, Pentacles
Eight of Pentacles
What you can see
A seated craftworker uses tools on a pentacle. Finished examples hang vertically nearby, with another on the ground.
What Waite says
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.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 266 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.