02. Two of Pentacles
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Number: 2
Card Title: Two of Pentacles
Esoteric Title: Lord of Harmonious Change
Numerical Keywords: 2: Expansion, Duality, Life Force
Numerical Attributions: Zodiac, Gray, Year, Beginning
Intelligence: Illuminating Intelligence
Element: Earth (cold, dry)
Elemental Keywords: Physical, Materiality, Worth
Elemental Attributions: North, Winter, Midnight
Astrological Attribution: Jupiter in Capricorn
Dates & Timing: December 22 to December 30
Qabalistic World: Chokmah in Assiah
Translation of World: The Wisdom of the Material World
Suit Color: Pentacles – Green
Keywords: Fluxuation, balancing 2 jobs, harmony, balance, talent, game, surprise, juggling finances.
Ill-Dignified:Argumentative, Narrowing, weighing alternatives, hostile.
Interpretation: Endless cycles of change. The earth as a stage. The nature of earthly things to change. Everything will eventually become its opposite. Promoting 2 or more business ventures. Likes 2 jobs for the variety. Have several money making options. News of a journey or change or residence. Use of talent to succeed. User of economy in displaying ones forces. Income of an artist/performer.
Reversed Interpretation: Discontent with any fixed condition. Wavering and Inconsistent. Narrowing several projects into one. Weighing alternatives and choosing. Person m ay decide to work on his own. Business decision has been reached with commitment to act. Emotional instability causes delay or difficulty starting project. Need to control Fluxuation of moods. Choice of direction is crucial for cusses. Too many irons in the fire. Plans go awry.
Rider-Waite Imagery
A man in a red hat juggles two pentacles. They are connected by an infinity sign.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
A young man, in the act of dancing, has a pentacle in either hand, and they are joined by that endless cord which is like the number 8 reversed. Divinatory Meanings: On the one hand it is represented as a card of gaiety, recreation and its connexions, which is the subject of the design; but it is read also as news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment. Reversed: Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.
4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Two.–Troubles are more imaginary than real. Reversed: Bad omen, ignorance, injustice.
The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing
In the Natural Position: 4 Twos = contention; 3 Twos = security; 2 Twos = accord.
Reversed: 4 Twos = reconciliation; 3 Twos apprehension; 2 Twos = mistrust.
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.
TWO. Opposition to this commencement. Difficulty in well establishing the first landmarks of good fortune.
The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]
Meanings of the Cards
76. Deuce of Pentacles.–Embarrassment, Worry, Difficulties; R. Letter, Missive, Epistle, Message.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Capricorn I
A woman, and a man carrying full bags; and the signification of these is for to go forth and to rejoyce [rejoice], to gain and to lose with weakness and baseness:
Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim
Book "T" The Tarot
XXXVI. The Lord of Harmonious Change
Two of Disks or Pentacles
TWO wheels, disks or pentacles, similar to that of the Ace. They are united by a green-and-gold serpent, bound about them like a figure of 8. It holds its tail in its mouth. A White Radiant Angelic Hand holds the centre of the whole. No roses enter into this card. Above and below are the symbols of Jupiter and Capricorn. It is a revolving symbol.
The harmony of change, alternation of gain and loss; weakness and strength; everchanging occupation; wandering, discontented with any fixed condition of things; now elated, then melancholy; industrious, yet unreliable; fortunate through prudence of management, yet sometimes unaccountably foolish; alternatively talkative and suspicious. Kind, yet wavering and inconsistent. Fortunate in journeying. Argumentative.
Chokmah of HB:H (Pleasant change, visit to friends).
Herein the Angels HB:LKBAL and HB:VShRYH have rule.
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.
- 4 Twos Conferences, conversations.
- 3 Twos Reorganization, recommendation.
