SEVEN OF PENTACLES

• ASSESSMENT
• REWARD
• DIRECTION CHANGE

assessing

evaluating the status
reflecting on progress to date
reviewing what’s been done
pausing to check results
making sure you’re on course
finding out where you stand
taking stock

Hermaphroditos

God(dess) of uncertain status. Greek. The offspring of HERMES and APHRODITE and the lover of the water nymph Salmakis. Tradition has it that their passion for one another was so great that they merged into a single androgynous being.

Gad

God of uncertain status. Western Semitic and Punic (Carthaginian). Probably concerned with chance or fortune and known from Palmyrene inscriptions, and from the Vetus Testamentum in place names such as Baal-Gad and Midal-Gad. Popular across a wide area of Syrio-Palestine and Anatolia in pre-Biblical times. Thought to have been syncretized ultimately with the Greek goddess TYCHE.

 

Gunura

Deity of uncertain status. Mesopotamian (Sumerian  and Babylonian-Akkadian). Described variously as the husband of the goddess NIN’INSINA and the father of Damu (DUMUZI), but also as the sister of Damu.

Forseti

God of unknown status. Nordic (Icelandic). A god of Asgard said by Snorri to be the son of BALDER and NANNA. According to an Icelandic list of dwellings of the gods, Forseti owned a gold and silver hall, Glitnir, and was a good law maker and arbiter of disputes. Also Fosite (Friesian).

AENGUS

ORIGIN Celtic (Irish). Of uncertain status.

KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 500 BC or earlier until Christianization circa AD 400.

SYNONYMS Mac Oc; Aengus Oc.

CENTER(S) OF CULT Brugh na Boinne (Valley of the Boyne).

ART REFERENCES various monumental carvings and inscriptions.