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King of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning

King of Pentacles belongs to the suit of Pentacles — the earth suit of work, body and material life. Upright it speaks of abundance, stability, successful provider; reversed, of greed, materialism. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's archetype and its astrological correspondence.

King of Pentacles tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
Minor Arcana · PentaclesEarth

Upright meaning

“Valour, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in these paths”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: abundance, stability, successful provider, disciplined, grounded leader.

Reversed meaning

“Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: greed, materialism, stubbornness, financial loss.

The archetype

In the language of the sensation function (body, work and the material world — the earth of what is real): the directing mastery (King) — ordering, the governing psyche.

Astrology

The airy aspect of Earth; court of the earth triplicity (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn).

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