Suit of Pentacles Card Meanings
Learn tarot card meanings for the suit of Pentacles & how their passive, stable & practical nature relates to your life. Numerology, astrology & correspondences
Within tarot card meanings, the tarot Suit of Pentacles represent all things material and physical, what you experience using your senses. They deal with your money, business deals, material possessions, your job, arts, crafts, your home & garden.
Working hard & getting the job done are attributes of this suit. Pentacle people don’t mind getting their hands dirty whether that’s working with the land or in a factory. Strong & dependable, often found in the trades, removals, farming, landscaping & homemaking.
- Keywords for the Suit of Pentacles
- Sensual, sexual; strong; lithe; dependable; reliable; stoic; practical; skilled & skillful; artistic; common sense; traditional; regular; straightforward; grounded; sensible; lush; fertile; growth; luxury; wealth; prosperity; apprenticeships; scholarships; dull; dutiful; realistic; down-to-earth; materialistic; money motivated; domesticity; health & fitness; exercise.
- The Suit of Pentacles Reversed
- miserly; slave drivers; workaholics; pleasure seekers; neglectful; shoddy work; dullards; negative; pessimistic; superstitious; thoughtless; penny pinchers; lazy; unforgiving; selfish; greedy; covetous; moronic.
Suit of Pentacles Card Links
Correspondences for the Suit of Pentacles
| Other Names | Disks, Coins, Deniers, Stones, Diamonds |
|---|---|
| Element | Earth |
| Attrubutes | Passive, female; cold and dry |
| Astrological Signs | Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn |
| Direction | North |
| Season | Pagan – Winter |
| Esoteric – Winter | |
| Self | Body, foundation, touch |
| Jungian Function | Sensation |
| Body Part | Feet |
| Qabbalistic World | Assiah – the World of Action |
To help you learn the associated correspondences for the tarot suit of Pentacles, see my colour coded minor arcana correspondence charts. They include the four elements, astrology, timing, numerology, card counting values and yes no tarot listings.
A separate post, Timing Events Using Tarot and Astrology, goes much deeper in explaining how to derive timing from each tarot card in the deck using Traditional Tarot Timing and the complex astrological model by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Also colour coded, the post uses no less than seven tables to show the development of the system in an easy to understand tutorial.
The Element of Earth & the Suit of Pentacles
As one of the four elements, earth is seen as the material, the physical & the sensual. A Passive element, Earth allows growth & production; promotes prosperity; is the foundation on which anything is built. Within the Suit of Pentacles, the earth element brings stability and grounds many aspects of the suit. Where fire brings tenacity, earth brings the actual effort.
Minor Arcana Numerology
Numerology of the Minor Arcana is a concise explanation of the numbers 1 – 10 through the eyes of numerology, modern and ancient, and is designed to assist you in seeing patterns across the suits as well as see the value of using numerology with tarot.
Tarot Court Cards
This group are somewhat complex and require more than just a few keywords to see them expressed with any sense of completeness. I grouped them into their rank in the following posts:
- the pages, princesses and daughters
- the dashing knights, princes and sons
- the gracious queens and mothers
- the kings, knights and fathers.
How to Finally Conquer the Tarot Court Cards also shows you how to bring this tarot family alive in a way you can relate to.
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