Two of pentacles

Two of pentacles

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The Upright Readings
harmony, new projects, helpful, Multiple priorities, time management, prioritization, adaptability

This card has shown the young Maharishi Shukracharya. He was the teacher of Asura (demons). Your goodwill is appearing on this card. New projects are getting created for you. You are getting helps to execute it. Fixed and multiple preferences are there. Many plans will start, and then give priority to time management. Only then the customized capacity will increase in the great results.

The Reverse Readings
difficulty, discouragement, Over-committed, reprioritization.

You may face internal difficulties. You will always find yourself in an emotional trap. It may come in a moment of disappointment. There is no need to be too much committed. Try to stay Normal. From time to time re-evaluation of yourself is very necessary.

Two of The pentacles

European Tarot card study points:

A clown from a circus wearing a typical red hat and green shoes playing with two pentacles with a green ribbon. Two ships are moving on sea waves in the background.

Ancient Indian Tarot card study points:

A Ziegler is playing with two pentacles on the seashore. The shining sky is cloudy. The person is in his red clothes enjoying his play. He is playing so fast that the air blow pattern is visible in thin air.

This young man is Shukracharya, before taking himself as a guru of Demons. (Believe me, Hermits were also young, they are not born old men.)

He is testing all the elements of life by swinging them into the universe. He was in dilemma to accept Gods or Demons as students. Later on, he turned into a very powerful guru of demons.

(Detail story of Shukracharya.)


Guru Shukracharya was the son of Bhrigu Rishi and Ushana, the daughter of Hiranyakashyapa. Shukracharya had been to Maharshi Angarishi for education but dropped out upon seeing his excessive favoritism towards his son Brihaspati. He then went to Rishi Gautam instead.

Guru Shukracharya undertook an arduous penance and invoked the blessings of Shiva. He asked for a mantra, which would ensure that the demons were never lost. Shiva agreed to do so, but Shukracharya was asked to perform a certain ritual for a thousand years and live only on smoke during this period. Shukracharya began this ritual to get the mantra from Shiva.

Meanwhile, the Gods (deities) noticed Shukracharya's plan. They decided to destroy the demons while Guru Shukracharya was away and before he acquired the divine mantra. As instructed by Guru Shukracharya, the demons were residing at the hermitage of Sage Bhrigu, Shukracharya's father.

The demons pleaded that they had given up their weapons and were leaving a peaceful life and hence it was unfair for them to be attacked at this time. The Gods attacked demons. Since Bhrigu was away, the demons requested his wife, Ushana, to come to their help. Summoning her mystical powers, she rendered Vishnu.

When Bhrigu returned and saw the decapitated body of his wife, he cursed Vishnu. Since Vishnu was guilty of killing a woman, he would have to take birth on earth repeatedly. This was the reason for the incarnations of Vishnu. Bhrigu then used his divine powers to rejoin the head and body of Ushana and gave her fresh life.

After his failure with the demons, Indra turned his attention to Shukracharya. He sent, Jayanti, with instructions to either distract Shukracharya using her charms or win him over with her service. Jayanti's modest behavior prevented her from seducing the Sage, so she followed the second option.

For the remaining part of her life, Jayanti devotedly served Shukracharya. When the period of penance was over, Shiva appeared and taught Shukracharya a mantra that would bring a dead person back to life. This mantra was known as the 'Mritsanjivni' or 'the one which brings the dead to life'.

Indra now hatched another plan. Indra asked Brihaspati to impersonate Guru Shukracharya and live with the demons. Some fortune would chance upon them sooner or later. Brihaspati did so and over the next ten years, he won the demons over completely.

After ten years when Shukracharya returned, he was aghast to see that an imposter had taken his place. As expected accusations were traded, but Brihaspati had replicated Shukracharya so accurately that it was impossible to tell who was the real Shukracharya. Finally, the demons settled for the man who had been guiding them for the last ten years and dragged the real Shukracharya away.

Guru Shukracharya could not bear this insult, especially after the thousand-year penance he had undergone for their benefit.

He was a short-tempered person and immediately cursed the demons that they would never be able to conquer the Gods (deities). Indra heaved a sigh of relief and Brihaspati assumed his true form; the demons realized that they had been tricked but now had no recourse.

After this, Brihaspati sent his son Kacha to Shukracharya to learn the Mrita-Sanjivani Vidya. Shukracharya accepted Kacha as his student. But other demons didn’t like it. As time progressed, Kacha fell in love with the daughter of Shukracharya, Devyani. This annoyed the demons even further.

One day, in the absence of Shukracharya, the demons killed Kacha. This news upset Devyani a lot. At the request of his daughter, Sage Shukracharya brought Kacha back to life with the help of “Mritsanjivni”.

One day while Kacha was alone in the forest, the demons killed him for the second time. They burnt his body and mixed his ashes in a drink, which they gave to Shukracharya. When Devyani came to know about this, she was shocked. She requested her father to revive Kacha for the second time. The agony of his daughter was unbearable for Shukracharya. Again, he used his powers to bring life back to Kacha.

After realizing his mistake of consuming Sura (wine), and its harmful aftereffects, Shukracharya prohibited the Brahmins from consuming it and warned them that it would destroy their religious powers. To drink wine means to kill a Brahmin and would be condemned both in this world.

Devyani was happy to find both of them alive. Now a new problem erupted. Kacha declined to marry Devyani on the logic that since he was reborn from the stomach of Shukracharya he is a son of Shukracharya, and so he could not marry his sister Devyani. This was a bitter shock for her.

Guru Shukracharya in the incidents during the Narasimha incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Hiranyakashyap tried many ways to kill Bhakt Prahlad, a devotee of Lord Vishnu. Shukracharya, was against Vishnu, helped Hiranyakashyap. Devi Ganga had asked Shukracharya not to indulge himself in this sinful act but Shukracharya did not desist from his support of the demons.

Similarly, during the Vaman incarnation of Lord Vishnu, when King Bali was donating the land to Lord Vaman, Shukracharya shrunk himself with his powers and sat in the spout of the vase, from which water has to be poured to seal the promise to the deity in disguise. Lord Vishnu, in the disguise of Vaman, understood immediately what was happening, and picked up a stalk of durva grass and stuck it in the spout, poking out the left eye Shukracharya in the process.