Element: Earth
Attributes: Passive, female
Season: Winter
Pentacles, or Disks, represent all things material and physical, what you experience using your senses. They deal with your money, business deals, material possessions, your job, arts, crafts and your home and garden.
Ace of Pentacles
Represents the beginning stages of something tangible; prosperity; growth; material abundance; new enterprise; improving finances or wealth; a solid fruitful foundation; a promotion; a pay rise; good luck; unexpected money.
2 of Pentacles
Change; movement; flux; maintaining balance; yin and yang; having ups and downs; a juggling act; growth through change.
3 of Pentacles
Work; a new job or career; career satisfaction; doing a good job; effort; excellence; continued progression; being industrious; productivity.
4 of Pentacles
Stability; strong foundations, personal power; manifestation; protecting your lot; elemental balance; structure; buildings.
5 of Pentacles
Material loss; worries; setbacks; stagnation; tension building; lack of belief; desolation; feeling isolated; being down on your luck.
6 of Pentacles
Success; generosity; giving and receiving; growth; expansion; satisfaction; financially helping others; paying it forward.
7 of Pentacles
Failure in business; blockages in production; fruitlessness; loss of property; inertia; stagnation; poor investments; delays in payouts.
8 of Pentacles
Being cautious; foresight; discretion; taking calculated risks; learning from past mistakes; learning; education; taking a balanced approach; improving your skills.
9 of Pentacles
Gain; rewards for your efforts; success in projects and business deals; realizing your goals; financial and personal independence; material security.
10 of Pentacles
Richness; abundance; wealth; family stability; prosperity; satisfaction; treasures found; an inheritance; a lottery win.
Tarot Court Cards
This group are somewhat complex and require more than just a few keywords to see them expressed with any sense of completeness. I grouped them into their rank and presented them as People, as Events and as Inner Processes in the following posts:
For more thorough and complex tarot card meanings and divinatory definitions, head over to our growing Tarot Card Study Blog where we post the basics, and through the comments section, you add your thoughts, comments and interpretations to the mix creating an eclectic yet thorough collection of tarot card meanings. Written by you, for you.
Catherine
