Three of Pentacles

Guiding words/ideas:

Creating strength with others; building strength/connection through physical contact, communication, psychic awareness and/or energy transfer; the connection can be with any other beings (not just humans); practice making connections; open senses to aid in this pracice; you are part of a vast webbed network of beings; use this created strength for positive activity.

Channeled guidance:

In this card, there are three separate hands from three separate arms from three separate beings. They are linked in a beautiful and strong connection, each hand grasping the wrist of the arm next to it, creating a triangular bond. It is a magical bond of three. Each hand has a pentacle on it, painted, tattooed, or even burned into the backside of the hand. Each pentacle is unique, as unique as each hand, as unique as each being.

The Three of Pentacles is about creating strength with others. That strength can be built through direct contact, like this card illustrates. Or it could be through indirect contact: communication, psychic awareness, energy transfer, or other ways that beings connect with each other.

These three hands are indeed from humans, but know that this connection, this coming together to build strength, can also happen with other beings. It can be easy for humans to be very human-centric, and I encourage you to think broadly about the meaning of this card and not to narrow it down. Ask yourself, “What is it to build strength in connection with other beings?” It is clear that strength can be built, but how do you want that to happen, and with what other beings? There are so many to choose from, so many potential connections.

The first steps are to just practice these connections. As mentioned earlier, that can happen through physical contact, communication, psychic awareness, or energetic exchange. This can happen through reading words of other beings, hearing sounds of other beings, or through smell. Any of your senses are available for you to assist in connecting. And once you start practicing it, you will notice that there are connections with other beings everywhere, all the time. You will start to see that you are part of a vast webbed network of beings. You will start to understand that you are never ever alone. And this should bring great comfort to you.

Allow these connections to be conscious and forged with intention. Think about what you can do with the strength of these connections to help heal other beings, yourself, and even the planet on which you live. Again, think broadly. Even allow yourself to dream of these connections. This very card should give you hope and inspiration. If every connection between beings is a potential point of strength, think of how much strength there is in this giant network of beings.

Can you help to point that strength towards healing, towards helping, towards building, growing, creating, and towards positive activity? And can you move energy away from destruction or even unconscious and mindless activity? Pour your energy into strength for the good of all beings, including yourself. And let yourself feel the hum of energy that flows when this web is healthy, happy, and working towards the highest good of all beings.

Plant and metal guidance:

Wild grape (purple in background): We are the bubbly magicians of the edges (of forests, our fields and our minds). We share with you our positivity, creativity and trickster capabilities.

Onion skin (orange arm and hand and orange in background): We are a reminder of the layering of experience and self. Layering provides complexity and strength, and we invite you to celebrate your unfolding as you discover yourself and your connections to other beings.

Black walnut (dark brown arm and hand): The strength of our magic lies in our ability to clear space and provide opportunities for recharging and resetting.

Acorn cap (light brown arm and hand): Like a gentle pat on the head, we offer up slow-moving energy to open the senses and awaken the mind.

Copper oxide (light blue crystalline circle created by dropping copper oxide into black walnut): I magnify the properties of whatever plants I touch or impact.