Ace of Pentacles
a new opportunity · a seed of prosperity · a gift · solid ground
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Pentacles
In a few words
- a new opportunity
- a seed of prosperity
- a gift
- solid ground
A hand from the cloud holding a golden coin over a garden. A real opportunity, a seed of prosperity, solid ground to build on.
Upright
- Everything
- A hand from the cloud holding a golden coin over a garden. A real opportunity, a seed of prosperity, solid ground to build on.
- Love
- A relationship with a practical, lasting base. Someone dependable arrives.
- Work
- A job offer, a new business, a contract. Material and real; take it.
- Money
- New income, an investment that can grow, a gift. Plant it, do not spend it.
- Myself
- Your feet are on the ground. Build something that lasts.
Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 280
Reversed
- Everything
- An opportunity lost, or a coin that turns out to be lead. Plans without a base.
- Love
- Materialism, or a bond built only on convenience.
- Work
- The offer falls through. Or you are chasing money over meaning.
- Money
- Bad investment, a missed chance, greed. Check what is actually solid.
- Myself
- Insecure about the material. Start with one small solid thing.
The evil side of wealth, bad intelligence; also great riches. In any case it shews prosperity, comfortable material conditions, but whether these are of advantage to the possessor will depend on whether the card is reversed or not. Such are the intimations of the Lesser Arcana in respect of divinatory art, the veridic nature of which seems to depend on an alternative that it may be serviceable to express briefly. The records of the art are ex hypothesi the records of findings in the past based upon experience; as such, they are a guide to memory, and those who can master the elements may—still ex hypothesi—give interpretations on their basis. It is an official and automatic working. On the other hand, those who have gifts of intuition, of second sight, of clairvoyance—call it as we choose and may—will supplement the experience of the past by the findings of their own faculty, and will speak of that which they have seen in the pretexts of the oracles. It remains to give, also briefly, the divinatory significance allocated by the same art to the Trumps Major. § 3The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 280
The card, as Waite described it
A hand—issuing, as usual, from a cloud—holds up a pentacle.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 280
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.