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Knight of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning

Knight of Pentacles belongs to the suit of Pentacles — the earth suit of work, body and material life. Upright it speaks of reliability, hard work, routine; reversed, of stagnation, stubbornness. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's archetype and its astrological correspondence.

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

Upright meaning

“Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude-all on the normal and external plane”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: reliability, hard work, routine, patience, steady progress.

Reversed meaning

“Inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: stagnation, stubbornness, boredom.

The archetype

In the language of the sensation function (body, work and the material world — the earth of what is real): the extraverted function (Knight) — pursuit, the quest psyche.

Astrology

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

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