Tarot card meanings · Pentacles
What does Six of Pentacles mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Six of Pentacles upright means “vigilance; now is the accepted time, present prosperity, etc”, and reversed “Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion”.
Upright
Vigilance; now is the accepted time, present prosperity, etc.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
It is a testimony to his own success in life, as well as to his goodness of heart.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Six of Pentacles fall in a reading?
Six 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.