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Six of Pentacles tarot card meaning: upright and reversed
Pentacles · Earth · VI · generosity · give and take · fair exchange
Upright meaning
Coins measured out on a scale. Generosity that is genuine and also accounted for — help given, debts settled, resources flowing to where they are needed.
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Six of Pentacles reversed
Giving with conditions attached, or a dynamic where one side is permanently the recipient.
Reversal does not flip Six 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 strings attached, imbalance, dependency.
In love
A relationship with balanced giving, or one where the ledger has quietly gone uneven.
In career and money
A raise, a fair deal, or support from someone with more resources than you.
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: Six of Diamonds →Pentacles pair with Diamonds, and the number stays the same. How cartomancy reads it, its yes or no and its birthdays.Zodiac sign and astrology
A decan card: one third of a sign · Golden Dawn
- Sign
- Taurus
- Decan
- 2nd · 10°–20° Taurus
- Planet
- Moon in Taurus
- Dates
- May 1–10
- Book T title
- Lord of Material Success
Financial comfort alone is too narrow a reading of Moon in Taurus; this pairing is read as receptivity to changing needs expressed through steady material support. The planet’s cycles and habits work through an Earth sign that sustains, making care a practical routine. You might regularly cover someone’s groceries while checking what you can afford, responding to their needs without ignoring your resources.
Read with: The Hierophant · The High Priestess · Five of Pentacles · Seven of Pentacles
