Tarot card meanings · Pentacles
What does Ace of Pentacles mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Ace of Pentacles upright means “Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence”, and reversed “In any case it shews prosperity, comfortable material conditions, but whether these are of advantage to the possessor will depend on whether the card is reversed or not”.
Upright
Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
In any case it shews prosperity, comfortable material conditions, but whether these are of advantage to the possessor will depend on whether the card is reversed or not.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A hand—issuing, as usual, from a cloud—holds up a pentacle.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Ace of Pentacles fall in a reading?
Ace of Pentacles belongs to the suit of Pentacles. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.