Book of Trades Tarot (Jost Amman 1588): Eight of Wine Jugs
For the purposes of this divination, the suit of Wine Jugs corresponds to the suit of Coins, or the playing card suit of Diamonds. This suit represents the element Earth, and the social class of Merchants. Wine Jugs are considered a Feminine suit. Wine Jugs typically represent material wealth and possessions, the body and health, and the environment of the questioner.
The Eights typically concern solidity, thick walls, skill, patience, achievement, change, and future contentment. Eights may also concern being enmeshed in the material world, trapped, caught between a rock and a hard place, revolution, travel, and showing strength to move quickly and escape a difficult situation.
Apprenticeship. Education. Quality. Engagement.
An artist at his work. A steady hand. Stable growth. Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business, perhaps in the preparatory stage. Steady patience with achievement kept in mind.
Reversed Meaning: Perfectionism. Lacking ambition or focus.
Perfectionism or voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. It may also signify the possession of skill, in the sense of the ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.