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King of Pentacles tarot card meaning: upright and reversed
Pentacles · Earth · K · material mastery · provision · established success
Upright meaning
Wealth built slowly and held without anxiety. The King of Pentacles has enough and knows it — generous because scarcity is not driving him, shrewd because he built it himself.
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King of Pentacles reversed
Success that became the only measure, or control exercised through money.
Reversal does not flip King of Pentacles into its opposite. The same force is present but blocked, turned inward, or overdone — which of the three applies is decided by the cards around it. The keywords shift to greed, rigidity, status obsession.
In love
A provider, stable and generous. Traditional in structure, reliable in practice.
In career and money
Business ownership, investment, sustained financial success. Favours the long, unglamorous route.
Yes or no?
Yes. Drawn in answer to a direct question, this card supports going ahead. Want it read against your actual situation rather than in general? Pull a card here.
The playing-card counterpart: King of Diamonds →Pentacles pair with Diamonds, and Kings stay Kings. How cartomancy reads it, its yes or no and its birthdays.Zodiac sign and astrology
A court card: from 20° of one sign to 20° of the next · Golden Dawn
- Sign
- Mainly Taurus
- Zodiac span
- 20° Aries – 20° Taurus
- Dates
- April 11 – May 10
- Element
- Air of Earth
- Book T title
- Prince of the Chariot of Earth
Treating the Taurus correspondence as simple stubbornness misses the role of judgment. Air of Earth is read as thought applied to material responsibilities, not merely holding on to what you have. In practice, you might recognize this in someone who checks what they can afford before offering support. Their generosity rests on a clear grasp of their resources.
Some books swap the Kings and Knights, because the Golden Dawn's "King" is the mounted figure. Read that way, this card belongs to Virgo. This page follows Book T, which itself names the mounted figure the Knight.
Taurus cards: The Hierophant · Five of Pentacles · Six of Pentacles · Seven of Pentacles
