Tarot card meanings · Pentacles
What does Knight of Pentacles mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Knight of Pentacles upright means “Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude—all on the normal and external plane”, and reversed “inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness”.
Upright
Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude—all on the normal and external plane.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He exhibits his symbol, but does not look therein.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Knight of Pentacles fall in a reading?
Knight 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.