Two of Pentacles
juggling · balance · adaptability · ups and downs
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Pentacles
In a few words
- juggling
- balance
- adaptability
- ups and downs
A dancer juggling two coins in a figure of eight, ships rolling behind. Balancing two things at once, and managing.
Upright
- Everything
- A dancer juggling two coins in a figure of eight, ships rolling behind. Balancing two things at once, and managing.
- Love
- Balancing love with work, or two priorities. It works if you keep moving.
- Work
- Several tasks, tight timing. You are coping; do not add a third ball.
- Money
- Cash flow juggling: paying one thing with another. Watch the rhythm.
- Myself
- Adaptability is your skill today. Keep dancing, but rest when the music stops.
On the one hand it is represented as a card of gaiety, recreation and its connexions, which is the subject of the design; but it is read also as news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 278
Reversed
- Everything
- Balls dropped. Overcommitted, disorganised, one thing suffering for another.
- Love
- The relationship losing to the schedule. Rebalance before it falls.
- Work
- Too many tasks, quality slipping. Say no to one.
- Money
- Robbing one account to pay another. Fix the flow, not the symptom.
- Myself
- Overwhelmed by juggling. Put one ball down on purpose.
Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 278
The card, as Waite described it
A young man, in the act of dancing, has a pentacle in either hand, and they are joined by that endless cord which is like the number 8 reversed.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 278
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.