Tarot · Pentacles
Six of Pentacles
Six of Pentacles - Earth
Correspondences
- Element
- Earth
- Planet
- Moon
- Sign
- Taurus
- Number
- 6
- Yes / no
- Yes upright, No reversed
Traditional Golden Dawn attributions. The yes / no value is a convention for single-card questions, not a prediction.
Upright
A fair, generous exchange of help is taking place.
Six of Pentacles. A fair, generous exchange of help is taking place. As a Six it is recovery after the crisis: equilibrium restored, usually with help, and usually with something given away to get it. In Pentacles, that stage plays out in work, money and the body. Its sign is Taurus, which holds: slow, sensory and immovable, valuing what can be touched and kept over what merely sounds good. Being Earth, it resolves only in material terms: time, money, body, or work actually done. Its keyword range runs through generosity, giving and receiving fairly, charity, and balanced exchange.
Reversed
What looks like generosity carries conditions or an imbalance of power.
Six of Pentacles reversed. What looks like generosity carries conditions or an imbalance of power. Under the Moon, it works in cycles and reflections: mood, memory, and matters that change shape depending on when you look at them. Reversed here, the force is present but obstructed. Not absent, and not simply its opposite, but asking to be unblocked before it can do anything. Its keyword range, to be read here as difficulty, delay, or a lesson not yet learned: strings attached, debt, imbalance of power, and one-sided generosity.
About the Tarot
A 15th-century Italian card game that was turned to fortune-telling only 350 years later.
The upright and reversed meanings here follow the mainstream Rider-Waite-Smith reading tradition. A reversed card is treated as the same force blocked, turned inward, or overexpressed - not simply as its opposite.
Full history →Meanings are a guide to a symbolic tradition, offered for reflection and entertainment. They do not predict the future or describe real people or events. See the Terms.