Tarot card meanings · Pentacles
What does King of Pentacles mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the King of Pentacles upright means “Valour, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in these paths”, and reversed “Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity”.
Upright
Valour, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in these paths.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
The figure calls for no special description; the face is rather dark, suggesting also courage, but somewhat lethargic in tendency. The bull's head should be noted as a recurrent symbol on the throne.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the King of Pentacles fall in a reading?
King 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.