Tarot · Pentacles
King of Pentacles
King of Pentacles - Earth
Correspondences
- Element
- Earth
- Planet
- Venus
- Sign
- Taurus
- Number
- 14
- 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
Disciplined, experienced leadership is turning effort into lasting abundance.
King of Pentacles. Disciplined, experienced leadership is turning effort into lasting abundance. A King of Pentacles is built security: resources mastered, obligations met, and a stability that took decades and shows it. Under Venus, it works by attraction and by value: what is wanted, what is worth having, and what is made beautiful enough to be kept. Being Earth, it resolves only in material terms: time, money, body, or work actually done. Its keyword range runs through business acumen, material mastery, disciplined leadership, and earned abundance.
Reversed
Discipline has calcified into stubbornness or an unhealthy focus on material gain.
King of Pentacles reversed. Discipline has calcified into stubbornness or an unhealthy focus on material gain. Its sign is Taurus, which holds: slow, sensory and immovable, valuing what can be touched and kept over what merely sounds good. Reversed here, it is loosening rather than failing. The grip of this is coming off, and the reversal reads as release rather than denial. Its keyword range, to be read here as difficulty, delay, or a lesson not yet learned: materialism, stubbornness, poor financial judgment, and rigid control.
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.