Three of Pentacles and Four of Pentacles

Building something and then gripping it. The Four is seated, clutching a coin to the chest with one under each foot and one on the head, secure and unable to pick anything else up. The tradition reads this run as skill hardening into protectiveness.

Associated with something built together becoming something guarded. Read as control that began as care.

Collaboration giving way to territory. Frequently read where somebody who was open has stopped sharing what they know.

The figure in the Four cannot use his hands. Whatever the Three built, the pair asks what holding onto it is now preventing.