06. Six of Pentacles
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Number: 6
Card Title: Six of Pentacles
Esoteric Title: Lord of Material Success
Numerical Keywords: 6: Harmony, Pleasure, Perfection
Numerical Attributions: Sun, Yellow, World, East
Intelligence: Mediating Intelligence
Element: Earth (cold, dry)
Elemental Keywords: Physical, Materiality, Worth
Elemental Attributions: North, Winter, Midnight
Astrological Attribution: Moon in Taurus
Dates & Timing: May 1 to May 10
Qabalistic World: Tipareth in Assiah
Translation of World: The Beauty of the Material World
Suit Color: Pentacles – Green
Keywords: Benefactor, Giving and Receiving, Good Karma with Money, Charity, Gifts, Grant of Money
Ill-Dignified:Repay, Jealousy, Miserliness, Time to Payback Loans, Gifts are really Bribes, Strings attached.
Interpretation: Good karma in the form of a gift, bonus, grant, insurance payment. Money above living expenses. The power of the universe to provide for us in magical ways for our financial needs.
Reversed Interpretation: Situation or relationship is out of balance. One person is dominate or one person gives too much and the other takes too much. Learn to set boundaries.
Rider-Waite Imagery
The suit of pentacles is related to the element of earth and covers the physical world, health and financial matters.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
A person in the guise of a merchant weighs money in a pair of scales and distributes it to the needy and distressed. It is a testimony to his own success in life, as well as to his goodness of heart. Divinatory Meanings: Presents, gifts, gratification another account says attention, vigilance now is the accepted time, present prosperity, etc. Reversed: Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.
4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Six.–The present must not be relied on. Reversed: A check on the Querent’s ambition.
The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing
In the Natural Position: 4 Sixes = abundance; 3 Sixes = success; 2 Sixes = irritability.
Reversed: 4 Sixes = care; 3 Sixes = satisfaction 2 Sixes = downfall.
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.
SIX. Realization of the opposition. Ruin.
The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]
Meanings of the Cards
72. Six of Pentacles.–Presents, Gifts, Gratification: R. Ambition, Desire, Passion, Aim, Longing.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
A naked man, holding in his hand a key; it giveth power, nobility, and dominion over people:
Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim
Book "T" The Tarot
XLIX. The Lord of Material Success
Six of Pentacles
A WHITE Radiant Angelic Hand holding a rose branch with white roses and buds, each of which touches a Pentacle. Pentacles are arranged in two columns of three each:
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Above and below are the symbols Taurus and Moon of the Decan.
Success and gain in material undertakings. Power, influence, rank, nobility, rule over the people. Fortunate, successful, liberal and just.
If ill dignified, may be purse-proud, insolent from excess, or prodigal.
Tiphareth of HB:H (Success in material things, prosperity in business).
Herein rule the Angels HB:NMMYH and HB:YYLAL.
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 Sixes Pleasure.
- 3 Sixes Gain, success
