Knight of Pentacles
methodical · reliable · slow and steady · duty
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Pentacles
In a few words
- methodical
- reliable
- slow and steady
- duty
A knight on a still horse, coin in hand, surveying a ploughed field. Reliable, methodical, unhurried, does the work.
Upright
- Everything
- A knight on a still horse, coin in hand, surveying a ploughed field. Reliable, methodical, unhurried, does the work.
- Love
- A dependable partner who shows up. Not flashy; here every day.
- Work
- Steady progress, routine done well. Trust the process; it is working.
- Money
- Careful, conservative, slowly growing. Boring, and right.
- Myself
- Persistence. You do not need speed; you need to keep going.
Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude—all on the normal and external plane.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 258
Reversed
- Everything
- Stuck in routine, dull, stubborn, or lazy. Or so careful that nothing moves.
- Love
- A relationship stalled in habit. Bring one new thing.
- Work
- Plodding without progress. Or refusing every change. Update the method.
- Money
- Over-caution costing opportunity. Or laziness about the accounts.
- Myself
- Boredom as a warning. Same road, but pick up the pace.
inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 258
The card, as Waite described it
He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He exhibits his symbol, but does not look therein.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 258
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.