Tarot card meanings · Pentacles
What does Two of Pentacles mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Two of Pentacles upright means “On the one hand it is represented as a card of gaiety, recreation and its connexions, which is the subject of the design; but it is read also as news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment”, and reversed “Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange”.
Upright
On the one hand it is represented as a card of gaiety, recreation and its connexions, which is the subject of the design; but it is read also as news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A young man, in the act of dancing, has a pentacle in either hand, and they are joined by that endless cord which is like the number 8 reversed.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Two of Pentacles fall in a reading?
Two 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.