Runway · Earth · Seven of Pentacles
7 of Runway
Exhausted founder leaning on a shovel, waiting for a vineyard of coins to ripen.
Upright
The agonizing, patient wait for capital investments and operational builds to yield an ROI.
Reversed
Patience exhausted at exactly the wrong moment. Pulling the crop before it ripens — or realizing, too late in the season, that this field was never going to bear and replanting is overdue.