13. Queen of Pentacles

Rank: Queen
Card Title: Queen of Pentacles
Esoteric Title: Queen of the Thrones of Earth
Astrological Attribution: Capricorn (cardinal earth)
Decans: The Devil
Dates & Timing: 20° Sagittarius to 20° Capricorn
Corresponding Trump: December 13 to January 9
Elemental Attributions: Water (cold, wet) of Earth (cold, dry)
Elemental Combination: The Emotions transform the Senses
Qabalistic World: Binah in Assiah
Translation of World: The Understanding of Manifestation
Suit Color: Pentacles – Green

Keywords: Deliberate, Caring, Nurturing, Charming, Timid, Big Heart, Sensual, Kind, Truthful, Impetuous, Orderly, Comfortable, Productive, Honest, Self-Satisfied, Resourceful, Practical, Hard working, Sensible, Domestic.

Ill-Dignified:Mean, Selfish, Materialistic, Hard nosed, Greedy, Capricious, Foolish, Changeable, Ruthless, Manipulative, Suspicious, Unreliable, Status Seeker, Insecure, Lazy, Gold Digger, Name Dropper, Superficial.

Interpretation

Temperament: Go-getter, ambitions, organized, down to earth, resourceful, very practical, not swayed by sentimentality, creative, talented, good at business, hardworking,

Professions: Wife, Homemaker, Caregiver, Runs a Soup Kitchen

Developing: Establishing a business, altering a work situation, or developing an exercise routine.

Meanings: Practical advice, friendship, good use of talents. Brings prosperity and harmony. Lack of imagination. Taking possession 0f. Marriage. Abundance.

Reversed Interpretation

Temperament: Superficial, Status Seeker, Gold Digger, Very Materialistic, Name Dropper, Insecure, Lazy

Meanings: Over influenced by physical. Unnecessary fear of failure impedes progress. Too dependent on others. Isolation. Lacks motivation. Neglects responsibility because of insecurity. Manipulative Woman.

Rider-Waite Imagery

Court cards can represent your personality, someone close to you and situations you find yourself in. Usually they describe all three at once. The suit of pentacles represents the Physical World,
Material Matters, Health Issues and Finances.

The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)

The face suggests that of a dark woman, whose qualities might be summed up in the idea of greatness of soul; she has also the serious cast of intelligence; she contemplates her symbol and may see worlds therein. Divinatory Meanings: Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty. Reversed: Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.

4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana

Queen.–Dark woman; presents from a rich relative; rich and happy marriage for a young man. Reversed: An illness.

The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing

In the Natural Position: 4 Queens = great debate; 3 Queens = deception by women; 2 Queens = sincere friends.
Reversed: 4 Queens = bad company; 3 Queens = gluttony; 2 Queens = work.

The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus; tr. A. P Morton, [1896]

Signification of the Four Series of Minor Arcana in the Divining Tarot

PENTACLES. Development. Money. Trade.

QUEEN OF PENTACLES. A fair woman, indifferent, or inimical.

The figures of the Pentacles are inverse to those of the Sceptres and Cups, and indicate all that comes from outside, from the country or abroad.

The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]

Meanings of the Cards

65. Queen of Pentacles.–A dark Woman, a generous Woman, Liberality, Greatness of Soul, Generosity; R. Certain Evil, a suspicious Woman, a Woman justly regarded with Suspicion, Doubt, Mistrust.

Additional Remarks

The following additional remarks may be serviceable to the to the inexperienced Cartomancer. They are chiefly taken from Etteilla.

65. Queen of Pentacles.–R. (If this card does not signify any particular person). If 65 R., 31 R., It is not said that there will be a Lawsuit. If 31 R., 65 R., If you gain your case you won’t be much the better for it.

The Court-Cards, and especially the Kings and Queens, may be taken to represent persons; in this case their additional meaning should not be read. The Swords represent very dark people; Pentacles, those not so dark; Cups, rather fair people; Wands or Sceptres, those much fairer, and so on. Many Wands together might signify feasting, many Cups lovemaking, Swords quarrelling and trouble, Coins or Pentacles money.

Where the mode of reading the cards requires that the person consulting should be represented, he should take one of the Kings to represent himself, according to his complexion. If a lady consults the cards, let her take one of the Queens; if she be rather fair, the Queen of Cups; if she be very fair, the Queen of Wands or Sceptres. If the inquirer be quite a youth or a boy, let him take one of the Knights; if a very young girl, let her take the Knave, etc. Etteilla’s plan was to take two of the Keys for Significators, that answering to the Pope for a man, that answering to the High Priestess for a woman; but I do not think this is so well. The worst of Etteilla’s system is that he so completely destroys the meanings of the Keys in his attempted rearrangement of them, as to make them practically useless for higher occult purposes.

Book "T" The Tarot

The Four Queens
are seated upon Thrones; representing the Forces of the He of the Name in each suit; the Mother and bringer-forth of Material Forces: a force which develops and realizes that of the King: a force steady and unshaken, but not rapid, though enduring. It is therefore symbolized by a Figure seated upon a Throne: but also clothed in Armour.

Princes and Queens shew almost always actual men and women connected with the matter.

XVIII. The Queen of the Thrones of Earth:
Queen of Pentacles

A WOMAN of beautiful face with dark hair; seated upon a throne, beneath which is dark sandy earth. One side of her face is light, the other dark; and her symbolism is best represented in profile. Her attire is similar to that of the Queen of Wands: but she bears a winged goat’s head as a crest. A goat is by her side. In one hand she bears a sceptre surmounted by a cube, and in the other an orb of gold.

She is impetuous, kind; timid, rather charming; great-hearted; intelligent, melancholy; truthful, yet of many moods.
If ill dignified she is undecided, capricious, changeable, foolish.

  • She rules from 20 Degree Sagittarius to 20 Degree Capricorn.
  • Water of Earth
  • The Queen of Gnomes.

Often the General signification of the Majority of a particular suit and of the particular signification of the either 3 of 4 cards of a sort in a reading:

  • A Majority of Pentacles Business, money, possessions.
  • A Majority of Court Cards Society, meetings of many persons.
  • 4 Queens Authority, influence.
  • 3 Queens Powerful friends.