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Knight of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning and Art Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Designation

Knight of Pentacles

About the Deck

Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present. I made a digitally retouched and painted version of this deck, which I call the "Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck". The cards from that deck, as well as a modern English translation of the romantic English descriptions by Arthur Edward Waite (as appear on the Waite Smith Tarot deck) appear in a cross-referenced format in my book, "A Concise Guide to the Tarot: In Vivid Color"

Provenance

Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.

Tags

pentacles-12, knight-of-coins, knight, pentacles

Description

He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He exhibits his symbol, but does not look therein.

Meaning of Knight of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Upright

Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude-all on the normal and external plane.

Reversed

Inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness.

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

A young, fair man. A stranger. An arrival.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

An useful man; useful discoveries.

Reversed

A brave man out of employment.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

A useful Man, Trustworthy, Wisdom, Economy, Order, Regulation

Reversed

A brave Man, but out of Employment, Idle, Unemployed, Negligent.