In a word (upright)
A time to carefully assess the results of your efforts. Even if big results don't come right away, what you've nurtured is surely ripening. Don't rush—calmly decide whether to continue or change direction.
When it appears reversed
You're working hard but see no results, and feel impatient. If your approach doesn't fit, changing it a little is an option. Review your plan so your efforts don't go to waste.
A starting point through the image
In the older guidebook's illustration, The image depicts a person pausing to look at pentacles that have grown like a harvest.
Use Nurturing · Assessment · Time spent waiting as a clue when considering something on your mind. A figure in the image need not represent someone of a particular age or gender; it can also symbolize a role held by you or someone around you.
Upright meaning
Review continued effort and choose where to tend next. The speed of visible results need not determine effort's value. Place the starting purpose beside experience so far to distinguish continuity from method changes and set a next checking date.
This position focuses on asking again about one condition you took for granted. Before rushing to decide whether it is right, return to the basis on which you judged it.
Reversed meaning
Concern about time already spent may hurry judgment. Separate past investment from future amounts so past effort alone does not justify continuing, and choose the information to learn next.
For an uncertain continuation, compare what you already invested separately from what will be needed ahead.
Love and relating to your partner
Relationship change need not happen at identical speed. Choose one thing to continue together and one discussion date, giving waiting a reference point too.
Consider the matter on your mind through Responsibilities for preparing to meet and staying in touch. List separately what the person has actually said and the wishes you have not yet checked; this can help you choose a starting point for the next conversation.
In work and learning
Choose upkeep for long-standing work. Separating time invested from the next question allows a return to purpose before keeping steps through habit.
For a current task, the perspective is to clarify Steps, tools and preparation needed for completion. Focus on one step you are responsible for and first agree who needs to decide what.
When this card appears in a three-card spread
In the position for support and conditions to clarify, This position asks whether the list of things to check has grown too broad. Choosing the one point needed for your current question can narrow the person or material to consult next.
In the position for a next step you choose yourself, For your next step, place one question before the decision. Record what you learned in a line, then compare the available conditions again.
For a reversed card, use its reversed meaning and action above, then revisit the conditions to check in the same position. Rather than deciding an outcome from the card's name, consider the adjacent cards and the question selected beforehand together.
One thing to take into daily life
Place a continued task's purpose beside its response so you can choose a changed step and the next review date together.