Eight of Pentacles

Upright

Practice. Head down, repetition, getting genuinely good at something rather than just interested in it.

Reversed

Going through the motions, or perfectionism that's stopped being craft.

Its element

Earth — the body, money, work, the material. Earth is slow, and slow is why it is the only suit that compounds.

the Sun in Virgo — the specific weather this card sits in.

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