Tarot card meanings · Pentacles
What does Three of Pentacles mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Three of Pentacles upright means “Métier, trade, skilled labour; usually, how-ever, regarded as a card of nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory”, and reversed “Mediocrity, in work and otherwise, puerility, pettiness, weakness”.
Upright
Métier, trade, skilled labour; usually, how-ever, regarded as a card of nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Mediocrity, in work and otherwise, puerility, pettiness, weakness.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A sculptor at his work in a monastery. Compare the design which illustrates the Eight of Pentacles. The apprentice or amateur therein has received his reward and is now at work in earnest.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Three of Pentacles fall in a reading?
Three 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.