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Minor
Arcana - Pentacles
Pentacles, coins or discs, representing down-to-earth
matters, practicality, material concerns and especially financial issues.
They correspond to the Earth element.
King: Valour,
intelligence, business and intellectual aptitude, association with a man
possessing these. Reversed: Vice, weakness, ugliness, corruption,
peril.
Queen: Opulence,
magnificence, security, liberty. Reversed: Evil, suspicion, suspense,
fear, mistrust.
Knight: Utility,
serviceability, responsibility, interest. Reversed: Inertial,
idleness, stagnation, placidity, carelessness.
Page: Application,
study, scholarship, reflection. Reversed: Liberality, luxury,
unfavourable news.
Ten (10): Gain,
riches, financial and family security, built on firm foundations. Reversed:
gambling, disputed inheritance, financial difficulties, loss, robbery.
Nine (9): Prudence,
safety, success, accomplishment. Reversed: Roguery, deception,
bad faith, voided project.
Eight (8): Work,
employment, craftsmanship. Reversed: Voided ambition, vanity,
an ingenious mind turned to cunning and intrigue.
Seven (7): Business
matters concerning money, trade or barter, ingenuity. Reversed:
Cause for anxiety regarding money proposed to lend.
Six (6): Presents,
gifts, gratification. Reversed: desire, envy, jealousy, illusion.
Five (5): Material
trouble, immaterial success as in love with husband, wife, mistress, lover
or friend. Reversed: Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord.
Four (4): The
surety of possessions, gift, legacy, inheritance. Reversed: Delay,
suspension, opposition.
Three (3): Trade,
skilled labour, renown, glory. Reversed: Mediocrity in work,
pettiness, weakness.
Two (2): Gaiety,
reception, recreation, receiving messages. Reversed: Enforced
gaiety, simulated enjoyment, composing messages.
Ace (1): Perfect
contentment, ecstasy, gold, intelligence. Reversed: Evil side
of wealth, bad intelligence, questionable material conditions.
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