Octograms/Pentacles

The original suit of Pentacles is transposed into Octograms. This is to do with the magical world, specifically the world of the wizards. This suit relates to treasures (physical and intellectual), with prosperity and wealth.

Card Name: Two of Octograms

Card Meaning: You are balancing the demands made on you at present. If further demands are made upon you, expect disruption. In general though this card brings a feeling of being able to cope, of thriving on challenge and disruption. Easy skill with finance and business is also indicated. This card is also a sign of vitality and energy.

Card Scene: Searching the University for the source of the 'glingle' noise in The Hogfather.

Card Name: Three of Octograms

Card Meaning: This card indicates achievement, usually in business or financial fields. This frequently involves teamwork, reaching goals or a group win. It is also a practical card - each member of the group will have different practical skills; try to ensure that these mesh together. Take pride in your abilities.

Card Scene: In Reaper Man, working together the blast the compost heaps and the trolleys.

Card Name: Four of Octograms

Card Meaning: This designates ownership, high success and wealth through personal control. You may be good with money or attain your business goals. Remember not to neglect your spiritual and personal goals and that 'you can't take it with you'. You may have issues with possessiveness, jealousy or miserliness.

Card Scene: Leaving Mono Island in the Boat in The Last Continent.

Card Name: Five of Octograms

Card Meaning: This is an unhappy card, signifying ruin or lack. This could be financial collapse, ill health (perhaps nervous breakdown) or a serious career setback. These may result in unemployment, poverty, a debilitating illness or rejection/desertion by friends and colleagues.

Card Scene: The ongoing trials of the Bursar.

Card Name: Six of Octograms

Card Meaning: This card shows balance and stability in financial matters. This is not vast riches but a comfortable level of wealth. Try not to accumulate for the sake of having, but share your wealth through charity, friends and family and avoid the overachiever mentality. This card has overtones of generosity and of philanthropy.

Card Scene: Ridcully officiating at the race in Going Postal.

Card Name: Seven of Octograms

Card Meaning: This card indicates cautious progress. Things are going well and should continue to do so, providing that you still put in the effort you have been so far. Be wary of adversity - this may or may not come, but nothing will be lost by being methodical and placing safeguards to insure your success and the harvest of your efforts.

Card Scene: Finding resources for food and drink (and handkerchiefs) on Mono Island.

Card Name: Eight of Octograms

Card Meaning: This card indicates that success and reward will be achieved through hard work and dedication. This is equally true for students, craftsmen, artists and businessmen. Care and effort will be rewarded in the end. Ignore promises of quick results and work on your long-term plans. This hard work will be satisfying and productive when attention to detail and craftsmanship are valued.

Card Scene: Ponder working, however briefly, with the God in The Last Continent.

Card Name: Nine of Octograms

Card Meaning: Riches tempered by gentle self discipline. Good management of business interests results in the good life, a balanced prosperity. Trust your own good sense and interest. This card focuses upon the material trappings of prosperity: home and hearth. Good luck in business, fulfilment, wise decisions.

Card Scene: Victor Maraschino's transition to film in Moving Pictures - a prosperous decision.

Card Name: Ten of Octograms

Card Meaning: Wealth and possibly an inheritance. Family wealth, real estate, long-term investment and planning. This card indicates lack of worry about financial matters, comfort and the completion of well-laid plans.

Card Scene: The Librarian snug in the Library at the end of Sourcery.

Card Name: Page of Octograms
Represented By: Coin
Casting: Hayden Christensen

Card Details: Coin's appearance heralds the return of Sourcery. This is a real chance for wizardry on the Disc, an opportunity to make things anew, to refine and ease the practice of magic, and to reassert the natural hierarchy of wizards (i.e. a pyramid with everyone else on the bottom). His arrival sweeps all before it in an unheralded boom of power and prosperity. Unfortunately, the staid and scholarly world of magic may not be ready for bright new principles - and there's no stopping human nature.

Card Reading: The Page is often a child or young person who heralds opportunities. These usually relate to success or to a breakthrough (in wealth, power or intellectual pursuits). This is a lucky card for those involved in financial matters, bringing new information or a situation which can be turned to your advantage. Manage your interests intelligently and you may be able to seize this opportunity to prosper.

Card Name: Knight of Octograms
Represented By: the Bursar
Casting: Tom Baker

Card Details: Responsibility, patience and unwavering attention to detail. This card is tailor-made for the Bursar. His administrative and financial acuity is very useful in a University of wizards concerned with large meals and half-hearted assassinations. He can be slow to act until he is sure of the correct course and actively enjoys the details and routines of administration. He is attentive to his job, unless he's run out of dried frog pills.

Card Reading: The calmer, less impulsive side of this suit, the Prince is concerned with the planning behind the scenes of the changes and financial opportunities available. You may be feeling tied down by trivia or bureaucracy or conversely feel like throwing caution to the winds. Don't, just yet - this card is all about the usefulness of planning, of building on a firm base. Complete all projects, persist and don't give up easily.

Card Name: Queen of Octograms
Represented By: Gytha (Nanny) Ogg
Casting: Judi Dench

Card Details: Of the Lancre witches, Nanny Ogg is probably the most in tune with the cycles of life and humanity. She has an unsurpassed talent for finding people's emotional levers and using them to aid or to manipulate. Earthy, practical and domestic, Nanny is also a stable rock, someone to depend on and whose loyalty is unwavering. She is friendly and open - especially when drinking fermented apple drinks - but nevertheless achieves her goals by using her skills of kindness, generosity and good old-fashioned matriarchal terrorism.

Card Reading: Generous, motherly and in touch with nature, the Queen is a warm and supportive card. This represents a woman who plays a nurturing, home-oriented role, or a need for understanding and generosity in self or others. Practicality and affinity with nature, a trusting and open environment and offering shelter and comfort to the destitute.

Card Name: King of Octograms
Represented By: Mustrum Ricully
Casting: Jeffery Jones

Card Details: Often appearing out of touch with reality, Mustrum Ridcully is in reality a shrewd man with an excellent grasp of human dynamics. He is at the top of his game - both wizarding and sporting - and tempers lots of knowledge with a good sense of when to use it. He is practical and good at spotting opportunities. He has brought steadiness to the cut-throat magical hierarchy and maintains a healthy balance of magical and non-magical lifestyles by hunting anything that can't get out of the way quick enough. The University is also very wealthy, practicing the compound interest nearest-available-dungeon method of storing their cash. Plus, of course, there's also magical gold to fall back on.

Card Reading: Skilled and experienced, the King is a successful businessperson, usually adept in money matters. He is shrewd, able to spot business opportunities and to roll up his sleeves and pitch in to make the most of them. This card is a positive one for those in business, aiding new enterprises, making money or solving problems.

Card Name: Ace of Octograms

Card Meaning: The start of great prosperity. Focus on what is real, material, and turn your dreams and ideas into reality. Expect good fortune in enterprise, gifts, an inheritance or a great opportunity.

Card Scene: The coming of the Wet in The Last Continent.