Queen of Pentacles

Upright

Practical nurture — someone who makes things grow and feeds people while doing it. Grounded, capable, warm.

Reversed

Overwork disguised as care, or neglecting yourself while tending everything else.

Its element

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

Water of it — the element held inwardly. The Queen doesn't have to demonstrate it. She just has it, which is why she's the one people actually go to.

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