Saturday Morning (3.10.2026)

The Three of Pentacles really is one of those cards where the question “What exactly is going on there?” is far more interesting than the keyword “teamwork.”

We are apparently at the construction site of a church or monastery. On the left, elevated on a bench, stands a craftsman—usually understood to be a stonemason or sculptor. On the right are two people: a monk and a strikingly dressed figure, often interpreted as the architect or the person who commissioned the work.

And between them is something crucial: a plan. The person in the middle is holding a sheet that apparently shows the design of the building.

In other words, they are not simply working physically together on the same thing. They are discussing a work in progress.

The craftsman has his tool in his hand.
The other person has the plan.
The monk may represent the institution for which the building is being constructed.

And above them, the three pentacles are already part of the architecture.

After our conversation yesterday, I rather like this for today. Because we had reached your kitchen scene and the thought you keep returning to:

“Why won’t the other person move even a little way toward me?”

Here, three people are standing together without any one of them apparently having to go the whole distance.

The stonemason does not have to be the architect as well. The architect does not have to work the stones. The monk does not have to know how to do either. Each of them brings something to the table.

This is actually a much better image of a relationship than my “Who brings the firewood?” from yesterday, which you rightly corrected.

Because a relationship does not have to mean that both people do the same thing or contribute the same amount. Birgit could quite rightly have listed a thousand things she brought to your 29 years together. The more important question would be:

Can two people occasionally look at the same plan together?

That might be exactly what you are searching for so intensely in conflicts.

You do not necessarily want the other person to say: Mirko is right. You want to be able to look at the sheet with them and say:

This is where we are. This is what happened. This is how you experienced it. This is how I experienced it. What do we build from it now?

And perhaps that was exactly what made things so difficult with some of the women in your life. Not because they did nothing for the relationship. But because, in certain conflicts, you felt as though you were bent over the plan all by yourself.

I also find the craftsman’s posture interesting. He is not standing submissively before the other two. In fact, he is elevated above them. His expertise is clearly needed. At the same time, he looks down toward them and listens.

No one merges with the other. No one has to abandon their position.

That, in turn, would be quite close to what you observed with Klaus and Sonja: You can argue with each other and still keep working on the same structure.

And then there is something else that fits your life at the moment very well. The Three of Pentacles is a remarkably down-to-earth card. After all the water of the past few days—crying, the King of Cups, the Five of Pentacles, childhood, mother, Birgit—today, suddenly, there is someone standing there with a hammer in his hand.

Not: What does my whole life mean?

But:
What are we building today?

Perhaps that is not such a bad card for a Saturday morning.