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Description in booklet: A child priestess is preparing wreaths and decoration for the temple, under the supervision of a high priest.
There is a preparatory side in this card. Here we have a child seated down preparing wreaths to be used in a religious festival. A high priest standing up also holds a wreath and is supervising the instruction. Apparently, the child is not much of a child anymore since she is bosomy. We may guess that this child is most likely in her 12th or 13th year of age. The high priest holds a wreath with his right hand while his left hand is hidden underneath the robe.
The three pentacles are above in different sizes.
The three of pentacles in general often signify work, vocation or skill and in this card, the child represents a particular vocation - she is studying to be a high priestess and one of her tasks is to prepare the temple for celebration. She has a mentor - the high priest who will ensure that she does this job right.
The best works are often the creation of years spent on education and crafting one's skills to mastery. In Ancient Etruscans, there were schools and institutes that trained men to become high priest. I suppose that there would also be similar learning institutions for children who are deemed fit to be priestesses.
Religion was sacred to the Etruscans and the Romans, the Greeks and other members of the ancient times respected them for this. Most likely, women in the Etruscan times were trained in arts of divination. In one of the historical texts by Livy, he wrote that Etruscan women were skilled in reading bird signs, and including engravings on bronze mirrors, bronze figurines, funerary reliefs and sculpture, and inscriptions...
What therefore would the Etruscan Three of Pentacles mean? The card suggests work being done not for pure earning of wealth but more for higher level expertise or the eventual mastery of a discipline.
If the Ace of Pentacles is a start, and the two suggests a celebration of current and upcoming opportunities, the three involves hard work but not just for the purpose of doing a job. The Etruscan three of pentacles suggest the need to develop one's skills for upcoming mastery, position being aimed for, a stature worthy of effort and skill. There is the promise of a reward on the achievement level provided work has been done, and together with work, learning.
Refinements of current skills is being called to task here, supervised by one who knows better. While the work may be tedious and at times routine, there is also such a thing called meaningful routine wherein the accomplishment of a menial task leads to greater accomplishments.
If we pull out this card, it may help to note the state we are currently in in so far as what we are aiming for is concerned. It tells us that there are experts or resources who can help us, but we also need to be teachable and together with this is the discipline and will to do one's best and do what it takes to achieve mastery.
There is a preparatory side in this card. Here we have a child seated down preparing wreaths to be used in a religious festival. A high priest standing up also holds a wreath and is supervising the instruction. Apparently, the child is not much of a child anymore since she is bosomy. We may guess that this child is most likely in her 12th or 13th year of age. The high priest holds a wreath with his right hand while his left hand is hidden underneath the robe.
The three pentacles are above in different sizes.
The three of pentacles in general often signify work, vocation or skill and in this card, the child represents a particular vocation - she is studying to be a high priestess and one of her tasks is to prepare the temple for celebration. She has a mentor - the high priest who will ensure that she does this job right.
The best works are often the creation of years spent on education and crafting one's skills to mastery. In Ancient Etruscans, there were schools and institutes that trained men to become high priest. I suppose that there would also be similar learning institutions for children who are deemed fit to be priestesses.
Religion was sacred to the Etruscans and the Romans, the Greeks and other members of the ancient times respected them for this. Most likely, women in the Etruscan times were trained in arts of divination. In one of the historical texts by Livy, he wrote that Etruscan women were skilled in reading bird signs, and including engravings on bronze mirrors, bronze figurines, funerary reliefs and sculpture, and inscriptions...
What therefore would the Etruscan Three of Pentacles mean? The card suggests work being done not for pure earning of wealth but more for higher level expertise or the eventual mastery of a discipline.
If the Ace of Pentacles is a start, and the two suggests a celebration of current and upcoming opportunities, the three involves hard work but not just for the purpose of doing a job. The Etruscan three of pentacles suggest the need to develop one's skills for upcoming mastery, position being aimed for, a stature worthy of effort and skill. There is the promise of a reward on the achievement level provided work has been done, and together with work, learning.
Refinements of current skills is being called to task here, supervised by one who knows better. While the work may be tedious and at times routine, there is also such a thing called meaningful routine wherein the accomplishment of a menial task leads to greater accomplishments.
If we pull out this card, it may help to note the state we are currently in in so far as what we are aiming for is concerned. It tells us that there are experts or resources who can help us, but we also need to be teachable and together with this is the discipline and will to do one's best and do what it takes to achieve mastery.
