Ace of Pentacles
Power of earth, usually associated with business, finance and material matters signifying growth. A seed, the beginning of a venture, success, inner and outer richness, money from an unexpected source, gifts. Pure joy, beginning of matter, also physical contact. Charge of physical energy is available for the birth of a new creative vision in the manifest world creating tools and beautiful objects. Contract, good earning, perspectives, work. "Money makes the world go around."
Negative: Sudden impulse to extravagance.
King of Pentacles
The encounter with material ambition and its challenges and rewards can be a productive and healing one. It is success through cleverness, discipline, activity and dynamic, the right qualities of leadership, authority and realism. This unashamed materialist is healthy and strong and he is pride of his achievement for power and recognition in the eyes of others. His need for material security brought him to receive this gift of manifesting creative ideas in the world, together with the radiating sun, the source of energy and creativity. So take up the challenge of worldly things, encounter this material self-confidence and it becomes at the same time a lesson about greed and the let go of material desires - a creation of inner and outer richness.
Negative: Corruption, narrow bigoted chauvinist man, lazy, loneliness, above others.
Queen of Pentacles
She represents the feminine strength and sensuality, the image of self-value, it is to learn to sustain and preserve material resources, to have the dignity to bow down to the power of the instincts and acknowledge. With her we come to full expression of ones sensuality, the value of the body and the pleasures which preserve and enrich life. A mature self-sufficient woman who organizes a comfortable home and family, one who takes responsibility willingly. She is generous, pragmatic and for the protection of her own wealth and territory she can destroy just as good as she can create. Happily she gives material help in demanding situations, generous and willing to indulge herself and others if it suits her purposes.
Negative: A slave to her own generosity.
Knight of Pentacles
A person who enjoys luxury, the arts of healing and prophecy and good living. It is an opportunity to learn more about this side of oneself through the catalyst of another, to handle finance and practical matters with ease and good humor. This message can mean a background of stability and security to live the sensual vital energetic pleasure and physical love. It is the industrious and versatile dimension in motion and the perfected art in hunting. He or she is a friend of animals, has a sense of form, of artistic success and likes to travel.
Negative: Interfering, over-organizing.
Page of Pentacles
A young man motivated by his potential of attainment and ambition, by his desire of experience and promotion. First there are small steps together with discipline, inventiveness and cleverness he can build up things in the world and fulfill the needs of the body, the desire to care for oneself better. With time and careful work a wish can develop into something which might lead to something greater. He is practical and helpful if it serves his own purposes. Sometimes he is unaware of support and can't see the money which is available. It is a delicate beginning of recognition of the value of the material world and it must be nurtured and protected. But then the potential comes to fruition.
Negative: Ruthless heartless achiever.
Ten of Pentacles
Wealth - inside and outside and the ability to pass it on. This may be a material inheritance of wealth or property or it may be an artistic achievement. On the other side the world is upside-down with inhibition and one has to take all consequences of life, there is futility of material gain, unless put to good use. See yourself, show yourself and use what's there, give it, spent it for the potential to sense the reality. Family, inheritance, economic welfare and having fun together means a period of ongoing contentment and security, a sense of something permanent having been established. This is a worldly ambition of deeper value, the immortality lies in the imagination, in the experience of love, in the divine power of the mind and in the experience of growth.
Negative: Hanging on to what is already lost, because of fear of the unknown.
Nine of Pentacles
This card is all about pleasure and power of attraction, of finding a deep and permanent sense of self-value, a solid identity with unique abilities, to be in a position to enthuse and excite others. It includes good management and success in material matters, it is gain but more than worldly achievement. This satisfaction is dependent upon nothing and no one outside oneself. It is also solitary enjoyment, encounters during journeys, pleasure in self-sufficiency and accomplishment and sharing the magnetic power of one's wealth or abilities.
Negative: Phlegmatic, manipulating, attracting "hangers on".
Eight of Pentacles
Enthusiastic spirit of dedication and one-pointed energy of new venture after the period of "mind-life-crisis". It is about acquiring a new skill and individual talent which has recently discovered and is worthy of development and effort. Tenacity, self-discipline, prudence, and creativity are followed by expansion, security of material success and achievement, the reward after hard work. This establishment of matter, skills and abilities is a celebration of gifts, the inner and outer wealth.
Negative: Isolation through being in a position of power, delusions.
Seven of Pentacles
Urge to break out and try something new where the outcome is not guaranteed. Taking a considered risk with property or finance. The gambler takes failure, hard work and unfulfilled success for progress and ripening. The problem is weather or not to take the new opportunity and risk losing all that has been built, or to put energy into a new project or enterprise. In order to achieve care and forethought are needed.
Negative: Danger of stagnation, misfortune, lack of vitality, unorthodox behavior for effect.
Six of Pentacles
Life's generosity arises from within the individual himself or herself. It is harvest and celebration of one's good luck and fortune. Give without conditions, life doesn't judge like society. It is giving and taking and enjoying the sensual pleasure of life, abundance, fertility and health. Also small earnings, balance between debit and credit, money or substance to be shared, restoration through the generosity or charity of others, renewal of faith and success.
Negative: Overindulgence, exaggerated.
Five of Pentacles
Here we have loss, financial loss or loss of faith in oneself, cause of confusion of self-value with material security. It forces a let go, because if material disaster comes then perhaps it is in some way necessary and the inevitable outgrowth of a wrong or inappropriate attitude. Disadvantages and temporary economic crisis leads to transformation of the inner individual towards material success with a more solid inner center which can cope with the challenges which success brings. Prepare to begin again and move from a position of security to the unknown.
Negative: Worry, heavy, slow, obstinate.
Four of Pentacles
Achievement of financial and material security. Being established and successful in one's career or ambitions. The manifestation of self-worth through material values. This character has integrity and confidence, claims his own territory, house and property and maintains his comfort and position in life. This earthly power stands for authority and vigilance, for wealth, investments, profit. It is a flow of material resources and competitive challenge in a creative way.
Negative: Stagnation, greed, anger, fear of letting go, control of the body, block of self-expression.
Three of Pentacles
The seeds lead to potential further growth and the first success on the road of material ambitions and experience due to perseverance. Celebrate the outcome, the new opportunities that occur as a result of present achievements. Establishment of the idea of the universe. Work of a physical or constructional nature brings perfection. But it needs hard work and quarrel to strengthen a position and make it permanent and risk before one can count oneself materially secure. Also seeing one's own limits and consequences, see your capacity, use your business skills,
work on your character to handle the future.
Negative: Overindulgence, conceit.
Two of Pentacles
Getting excited with the possibility of a material project. Someone is making an offer that could later bear fruit. Exchange, developing, creating together, building up, use of natural, present, available power to invest effort in new projects. Willingness to try several things at once and to take risks to utilize talents. It needs flexibility and change is the support of stability. It means willingness to put money and energy to work and shifting resources, play with money. Transformation, friction, progress, renewal.
Negative: Greed for material gain, weighing up one thing against another, naivet‚, premature reaction.