Two of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning and Art Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Designation
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-2, two-of-coins, two, pentacles
Description
A young man, in the act of dancing, has a pentacle in either hand, and they are joined by that endless cord which is like the number 8 reversed.Meaning of Two of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
On the one hand it is represented as a card of gaiety, recreation and its connexions, which is the subject of the design; but it is read also as news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.
Reversed
Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Difficulty in getting inheritance or good fortune.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
Troubles are more imaginary than real.
Reversed
Bad omen, ignorance, injustice.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Embarrassment, Worry, Difficulties
Reversed
Letter, Missive, Epistle, Message.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
terrific forms will appear, but will vanish again; fortune will depart, but will soon return; fortune will at last shower down all her treasures.
