Card of the Day for September 2 - King of Pentacles

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KING OF PENTACLES

Elemental Energy – Fire of Earth

Attribution - Leo-Virgo Cusp (20 degrees Leo to 20 degrees Virgo)

The suit of Pentacles represents the element earth. This is the suit through which we can appreciate what we have been given and it shows how we experience the external world.

Pentacles can represent money matters, resources, security, material concerns, prosperity, wealth, service, status, and physical experiences in the body.

Kings – The most highly evolved energy of their suits, fathers, mature men, leadership, authority, principled action, public recognition, the ability to get things done, honours, awards, celebrations.

Rider-Waite Imagery

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

Shown on this card is a man with a crown sitting on a throne in rooftop garden. His crown is made up of roses and lilies which suggest he rules with passion and hope. The King is holding an orb and sceptre. They are symbols of the authority of a King. The sceptre is a pentacle which represents his authority is of the pentacles and that which pentacles represent. The King is well of and very successful in the physical world.

As aspects of your personality the King of Pentacles is stable, earthy and protective. This is the clever and reliable part of you. The King of Pentacles likely also refers to a husband or father in your life. As a situation when the King of Pentacles comes up there may be a concern about being able to provide for oneself and family. Do you have any concerns about moving away from your children despite they are old enough to be on their own?

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

The figure calls for no special description the face is rather dark, suggesting also courage, but somewhat lethargic in tendency. The bull’s head should be noted as a recurrent symbol on the throne. The sign of this suit is represented throughout as engraved or blazoned with the pentagram, typifying the correspondence of the four elements in human nature and that by which they may be governed. In many old Tarot packs this suit stood for current coin, money, deniers. I have not invented the substitution of pentacles and I have no special cause to sustain in respect of the alternative. But the consensus of divinatory meanings is on the side of some change, because the cards do not happen to deal especially with questions of money.

Divinatory Meanings

Upright: Valor, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in these paths.

Reversed: Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.

Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana

King: A rather dark man, a merchant, master, professor. Reversed: An old and vicious man.

UPRIGHT

Mastering the material realm.

Reliability, stability.

The Executive.

Patience.

Honesty.

Acclaim.

Status, professional success.

Common sense.

Increased income, money in the bank.

An excellent mathematician.

Sound financial advice.

Real estate matters go well.

A generous man of wealth.

An ambitious man who will work hard.

Financial mentoring.

Use the money you make wisely.

Make unpressured choices, dream big dreams -- and be generous.

Today is a day of practical action. Defend your kingdom, claim the success you set out to achieve. Abundance is your birthright but don’t forget the responsibilities that go along with it.

REVERSED

A self-serving, tight-fisted man, one who hoards money and time.

All work and no play.

Too involved in self-gain.

A man easy to bribe, a corrupt man.

Given to gambling and other vices.

Lack of imagination.

Extravagance.

Easily tempted to unfaithfulness, drunkenness, excesses.

Wasting resources.

Manipulative, dishonest, shady person.

Poor business sense, foolish investments.

Seriously abusing one’s physical health.

Misusing physical assets.

Having bad credit.

Becoming obsessed with money and status.

Feeling that you have reached a mature age but all you have is a dull, respectable, unchallenging life.

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