House of
Pentacles
survival, class, work that consumes the self
“I survive work that tries to consume me.”
Pentacles is the house of labor — the woman who became respectable, employable, useful, and forgot how to be wanted. Its myth is the ledger always kept in her head: what she's owed, what she owes, what she'll have to do tomorrow to keep what she earned today.
The House Card
The Working Coin
The feminine self organized through labor and endurance. Pentacles is the house of labor — the woman who became respectable, employable, useful, and forgot how to be wanted. Its myth is the ledger always kept in her head: what she's owed, what she owes, what she'll have to do tomorrow to keep what she earned today.
Who taught you your value depended on how much you could carry?
- Survival strategy
- discipline, work, structure
- Rupture
- burnout
How she keeps herself intact — and the shape her armor takes.
Where the strategy fails her — and where the work begins.
Court of Pentacles
Figures of this house
Tim Allen
Hephaestus of the Suburbs
King of Pentacles
Stephen Baldwin
The Lesser Brother at the Gate
Page of Pentacles
John Candy
The Gentle Giant
Queen of Pentacles
Paul Giamatti
The Exhausted Intellectual
Page of Pentacles
John Turturro
The Working Mystic
Page of Pentacles
Mark Wahlberg
The Self-Made Son
Knight of Pentacles