What do the symbols I keep seeing mean f

If your symbols can be pinned to a real place and date, they read as material and practical. If they only ever turn up unprovable — half-dreams, passing thoughts — this spread is about your interpretation, not the symbol.

Past: Knight of Pentacles upright — slow, methodical repetition. Whatever has been repeating came in through routine, not drama; it built up because it kept landing in the same spot.
Present: The Magician reversed — you're reading these with your head turned on too hard. Attention is going into interpreting instead of recording, and the interpretation is what's tiring you, not the symbol.
Future: Six of Pentacles reversed — if you keep handling it this way, the unevenness grows: you'll read more into each sighting than the last. That's a tendency, not a forecast.

Two of three cards are Pentacles, and two of three are reversed — the pattern is earth energy turned inward, which fits. This is a topic about things, places, records, and what they mean — not about feeling.

Action, in the next 48 hours: write down the next three sightings as they happen — the exact symbol, the date, the time, and where you were. Nothing interpreted, just the row. That's what will tell you whether this is a pattern with a source or a meaning you've been handing it.

One thing the cards can't see: what the symbols actually are — name them, or tell me the card if it's a tarot one, and I'll read those seats directly.