Sophie-David
Like the RWS image, the Connolly Two of Pentacles pictures a juggler, but the Connolly image actually puts the man on the stage as a performer. Not only is this juggler trying to balance conflicting priorities, he is definitely doing so in the context of being expected to perform. The stage itself is marked like a chessboard, implying that as he performs his demanding tasks he also has to use strategy in planning his moves.
The importance of this card within the deck is expressed in being one of the two images on the outside of the box: on the front is Peter Connolly's gorgeous Temperance, and on the back is this Two of Pentacles. In Temperance we experience spiritual balance, and in this Two the balance is an expression of one's worldly activity. And unlike the RWS image, the lemniscate of cosmic balance - the manifestation of the infinite in the field of time - has become a smaller and more subtle image which integrates its parallelism with the card's Roman numeral "II".
The importance of this card within the deck is expressed in being one of the two images on the outside of the box: on the front is Peter Connolly's gorgeous Temperance, and on the back is this Two of Pentacles. In Temperance we experience spiritual balance, and in this Two the balance is an expression of one's worldly activity. And unlike the RWS image, the lemniscate of cosmic balance - the manifestation of the infinite in the field of time - has become a smaller and more subtle image which integrates its parallelism with the card's Roman numeral "II".
