This Tarot journey continues to surprise me. Ask about health and happiness and this card comes up, a card about hard work and diligence. Okay? Not that relationships, family, friends can't be hard work or require due diligence, but this is a card of craftsmanship, hands on, paying attention to detail, learning something and producing something. Maybe it's time to think of relationships as something we produce, create, a work of art that requires all our gifts of attention, skill, dedication, effort, time. I have always believed them more like a being, a person, something with soul, and they are that and more. Surely they can be works of art, full of heart and soul. They do require hard work and dedication. They do benefit from increasing our expertise. And it helps to pay attention to details, to being careful and care-full. Maybe if we think relating as a craft, love as art and artistry, then perhaps better isn't such a stretch.
In the Jane Austen Tarot, the Eight of Coins depicts Anne Elliot in all her realms of mastery. She is the most accomplished member of her family. She is capable, productive, organized, skillful, intelligent but practical. When this card comes up in a reading, it suggests the reader possesses these qualities as well. Or, it could be you're ready to move on to something more. It could also mean, like Anne at the beginning of the novel, you are being pushed to your limits, asked to do too much.
What Would Jane Do?
"When in doubt, choose "honesty against importance ... more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity." p. 136
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