Eight of Pentacles

The work or the process of it sometimes requires special measures, some sort of embellishment of what you are alreadye doing. It might be an improvement of your craft by further learning and education. It usually comes from the situation of you being unhappy and striving towards a goal that is more in relation with what we really want or altering the goals by working out new strategies and simply learning more about what we wish for.
There is a strong reassurance in the Eight of Pentacles where a reward is waiting for us while we slowly and patiently work on our education and learning more about how to improve things in different ways.
Striving for perfection is a very tricky issue - simply because in trying to achieve it we fail to see that the skill of adapting and the skill to see things differently while processing our work can help us to develop and move on from square 1 to square 2.
Sometimes seeing things from broader perspective and bigger picture of our work might help.