Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck

A young man, leaning on his staff, looks intently at seven pentacles attached to a clump of greenery on his right; one would say that these were his treasures and that his heart was there.

About the Deck

Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present.

Provenance

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

Meaning of Seven of Pentacles from the Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck Deck

Upright

These are exceedingly contradictory; in the main, it is a card of money, business, barter; but one reading gives altercation, quarrels--and another innocence, ingenuity, purgation.

Reversed

Cause for anxiety regarding money which it may be proposed to lend.

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

A large fortune.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

Improved position for a lady's future husband.

Reversed

Impatience, apprehension, suspicion.

Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings

Happy journey. Arrival of friends. A short trip. A journey.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Money, Finance, Treasure, Gain, Profit

Reversed

Disturbance, Worry, Anxiety, Melancholy.

P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Unkindly chat cynicism

Reversed

stupid and unfounded slander.

Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings

you will live with the constant idea that you will at last be fortunate; with this conceit your life will pass away, and you will at last die happy. You will always hope to win the high prize in the lottery, but you will never win it, until you have been kissed by the greatest lady in the land.