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. Read more
2 of Pentacles
Change; movement; flux; maintaining balance; yin and yang; having ups and downs; a juggling act; growth through change. Read more
3 of Pentacles
Work; a new job or career; career satisfaction; doing a good job; effort; excellence; continued progression; being industrious; productivity. Read more
4 of Pentacles
Stability; strong foundations, personal power; manifestation; protecting your lot; elemental balance; structure; buildings. Read more
5 of Pentacles
Material loss; worries; setbacks; stagnation; tension building; lack of belief; desolation; feeling isolated; being down on your luck. Read more
6 of Pentacles
Success; generosity; giving and receiving; growth; expansion; satisfaction; financially helping others; paying it forward. Read more
7 of Pentacles
Failure in business; blockages in production; fruitlessness; loss of property; inertia; stagnation; poor investments; delays in payouts. Read more
8 of Pentacles
Being cautious; foresight; discretion; taking calculated risks; learning from past mistakes; learning; education; taking a balanced approach; improving your skills. Read more
9 of Pentacles
Gain; rewards for your efforts; success in projects and business deals; realizing your goals; financial and personal independence; material security. Read more
10 of Pentacles
Richness; abundance; wealth; family stability; prosperity; satisfaction; treasures found; an inheritance; a lottery win. Read more
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 card meanings and divinatory definitions, head over to our growing Tarot Card Meanings section, where you can search and explore card by card. From here, simply click on an individual card to be taken directly to it. Navigate through the Tarot Card Meanings section from there by using the navigation bar and breadcrumb just above the card title. You can of course continue to search the keywords of the other minor arcana suits in their group form using the links below.
Keywords for the Tarot Suits
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