This morning I had been working on a self-portrait in Photoshop--cleaning up a photo that I took yesterday in the garden. I didn't look at the meaning of the card until I finished the photo:

On the Seven of Pentacles we see a man who has labored long and hard in his garden. The foliage is full, the blossoms are out - it seems that his work has paid off. Now he's taking a break to admire his handiwork. How satisfying it is to see such fine results! How rewarding is sweet success!

Quite apropos, I thought, both in terms of having worked in the garden yesterday, having worked on the photograph to nice result, and in the larger sense of having gotten myself into shape and having lost weight, making me not quite so averse to having photographs taken! It's also appropriate in light of career developments.