Tarot Teachings Understanding the Suits: Pentacles
Tarot Teachings Understanding the Suits: Pentacles
There are 78 cards in a traditional Tarot deck. 22 of these cards are Major Arcana. The remaining 56 Minor Arcana are divided into four equal suits– 14 Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. Each suit indicates energy, emotion, or circumstance in our life that requires our attention. It also tells of possible outcomes and influences.
The meaning of the Suit of Pentacles
The pentacle is a talisman that resembles a coin inscribed with a pentagram- a five-point star. The pentacle holds meaning for many schools of thought including protection, prosperity, luck, and manifestation. It also symbolizes the classical element, Earth.
Within the traditional Tarot deck, pentacles are presented as golden coins. How these coins are positioned, perceived, and decorated help you understand what the card is saying.
The most obvious meaning of the suit of Pentacles is money, riches, and general material abundance. This is less about how much money is in your bank account and more a reflection on your belief systems surrounding your worth, value, and how you relate to the material world.
Indicating Earth energy, pentacles can point out how grounded or turbulent you are within a situation. Some cards indicate time, effort, work, patience, nurturing, growth, and loss. If you choose to read cards reversed, an upside-down pentacle can indicate loss or bad investment.
What Do Pentacle Tarot Cards Mean in a Reading?
Consider the Pentacles as a resource. More than monetary goods, some important resources you offer others are your energy and time. In this case, pentacles in a reading don’t always signify love. That would be more appropriately represented by Cups.
Positive aspects portrayed in the Pentacles include:
Career/Work
Financial Investments/Loans
Money/Property
Evidence/Proof/Harvest
Manifestation
Business/Trade
Motivation/Intention
Grounding/Support
Negative aspects portrayed in the Pentacles include:
Greed
Materialism
Loss
Inflated Ego
Superficiality
Inappropriate priorities
Indulgence/Mismanaged resources
What Does it Mean When Your Draw Mostly Pentacles?
If your spread is coming up with many pentacles, practical matters are at the forefront of your mind or where your focus should be. How these cards are paired together and with other suits offer the full story.
Generally, pentacles highlight aspects of a person who operates a lot with rationale and are not swayed by being overly emotional. This can also indicate that many of their positive experiences and desires are based on material goods and the tangible world.
You may also resort to a single card pull using only the suit of pentacles. Ideal questions and information to receive from this Tarot suit include:
Should I change my job?
Offer me guidance on my financial abundance.
What limiting belief should I let go of?
Is this worth the wait?
Where can I shift my perspective?
What is a solution to my practical concerns?
What is the current vs. potential state of my financial affairs?
Is this a good investment of my time, energy, or money?
How can I take better care of myself or others?
Every interpretation of your cards will be unique from reader to reader. But often, the first message you intuitively receive is the one meant for you. As a quick cheat sheet, you can refer to the following section to better understand what the Tarot suit of pentacles is trying to tell you.
Tarot Pentacles Quick Guide
Surrounding energy and environment: Stable, grounded, lucrative, positive. This doesn’t apply to the 2, 4, or 5 of pentacles which indicate the opposite.
Potential people and energy involved: Pentacles can refer to Earth signs and Earth energy including Capricorn, Taurus, and Virgo.
Single card yes/no/wait questions.
Yes Answers: Ace, 1, 6, 9, 10, Page, Queen, and King of Pentacles
Wait Answers: 2, 3, 7, 8, Knight of Pentacles
No Answers: 4 and 5 of Pentacles
A brief interpretation of each card in the Tarot suit of Pentacles:
Ace of Pentacles:
Financial, career, practical opportunities. A gift, blessing, miracle, loan, or unexpected benefit.
Two of Pentacles:
Priority management, balancing resources, unstable ground, decision-making.
Three of Pentacles:
Education, learning, gaining skills, teams, mentorship, and collaboration.
Four of Pentacles:
Saving, insecurity, doubt, fear, pending, control, scarcity mindset.
Five of Pentacles:
Worry, loss, failed investment, abandonment, lack.
Six of Pentacles:
Generational wealth, sharing, donation, charity, abundance, giving of resources.
Seven of Pentacles:
Investments, sustainability, long-term work, big picture.
Eight of Pentacles:
Consistency, resilience, dedication, hard work, persistence, belief, mastery, and skill development for promotion or increased earnings.
Nine of Pentacles:
Independence, luxury, self-sufficiency, reward, abundance mindset.
Ten of Pentacles:
Financial security, large lump sum, abundance, generational wealth, and long-term success.
Page of Pentacles:
New skills, manifestation practice, start of a new and positive endeavor, beginner, values, possessions, and material blessings.
Knight of Pentacles:
Progress, steady and predictable, investment, routine, hard work, and commitment.
Queen of Pentacles:
Life purpose, nurturing, grounding, divine feminine, working mother, emotional investment, security, comfort.
King of Pentacles:
CEO energy, business savvy, wealth, practical sensibility, positive investor, disciplined, grounded, established, strong foundation.