Tarot card meanings · Pentacles
What does Four of Pentacles mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Four of Pentacles upright means “The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy”.
Upright
The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Waite gives no reversed meaning for this card that our rules let us quote.
What does the picture show?
A crowned figure, having a pentacle over his crown, clasps another with hands and arms; two pentacles are under his feet. He holds to that which he has.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Four of Pentacles fall in a reading?
Four 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.