Page of Pentacles
a student · a practical offer · learning · a first step
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Pentacles
In a few words
- a student
- a practical offer
- learning
- a first step
A young figure gazing at a coin held up like a lesson. Study, a practical opportunity, the beginning of something solid.
Upright
- Everything
- A young figure gazing at a coin held up like a lesson. Study, a practical opportunity, the beginning of something solid.
- Love
- A steady, sincere new interest. Slow to start, worth the wait.
- Work
- An apprenticeship, a course, a first job. Learn everything; it will be used.
- Money
- A small sum with big potential. News of an opportunity; a scholarship, a first salary.
- Myself
- Beginner's diligence. You do not need to be good yet; you need to show up.
Application, study, scholarship, reflection; another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 260
Reversed
- Everything
- Procrastination, a lesson not learned, a practical plan that stays a dream.
- Love
- Dragging your feet. Or a promise made and not kept.
- Work
- Not finishing the course, missing the deadline, unfocused.
- Money
- Careless with small sums that add up. Or an opportunity ignored.
- Myself
- Daydreaming instead of doing. One task, today.
Prodigality, dissipation, liberality. luxury; unfavourable news.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 260
The card, as Waite described it
A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 260
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.