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

Designation

Seven 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-7, seven-of-coins, seven, pentacles

Description

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.

Meaning of Seven of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot 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.