SEVEN OF PENTACLES
Slumber -- Results are seen. Things move rapidly according to plan. Stop and reassess. Reconsider the final goal. Rest is needed. Your head clears upon waking.
SHADOW: Are you using sleep as an escape? Lying around listlessly? Do you use medical issues purposefully to retreat from life and gain attention? If so, wake up from the dream. Rouse yourself.
A scarecrow looms over a pumpkin patch. He has scratchy, spiny branches for hands, and his cape flaps in the western wind. A girl lies beneath him. She rests her head upon a fat pumpkin under a spell or enchantment. Tendrils of growth spring beneath the pumpkin. Seven pentacles appear in the back of the garden.
Scarecrows spook crows and other birds who come to eat freshly sown seeds. What opportunities are you scaring away with your actions? What is your personal relationship to fear? Are you acting in subversive, subtle ways that hurt rather than help?
Seven is an ancient number of magic appearing in biblical texts, fairy tales, and myth. The seven pentacles imply fortuitous circumstances. Pumpkins contain protective magical properties. We carve them with ghoulish faces and place them outside our homes at Halloween to scare away haunting spirits. Know you are protected. The girl is safe in her slumber. Is the entire picture a lucid dream of her own conjuring? Dream divination offers an opportunity to consider what should be done next.