Tarot Cards Demystified - The Suit of Pentacles

[damon gerard]

There are many ways to interpret the symbolism found in Tarot Cards.
There are varying points of view that exist about what each card means
or represents. This is just one way of interpreting them. When you
understand this method you will find it to be extremely accurate.
Tarot Cards have a lot in common with Regular Playing Cards. Both
types of cards have four suits. However, the Tarot also has some
additional cards that a Regular Playing Card Deck does not have. A
Tarot Card Deck has seventy-eight cards.
The suit of Pentacles is similar to Diamonds in a deck of regular
playing cards.
Some of the qualities and meanings for the suit of Pentacles are:
* Earth
* Money
* Diamonds (as in regular playing cards)
* Diamonds and other Minerals
* Feminine
* Mother Earth
* Fertility
* Female
* Physical Body
* Material Plane
* Matter
* Industry
* Ego
* Motherhood
* Power
* Dark
* Yin Energy
* Riches, Wealth
* Business
* Banking
* Real Estate
* Land
* Possessions
* Investments
* Income
* Nurturing
* Home
* Security
* Grounding
Read over this list several times while trying to get a sense of the
type of energies associated with the suit of Pentacles.
Generally, when there are many Pentacle cards in a reading, or
Pentacle cards appear in important key placements within a spread of
tarot cards, finances or financial situations are probably emphasized
in that particular reading.
In the Rider - Waite Tarot deck the Pentacle resembles a large coin.
Coins symbolize money and finances. Coins are usually made of gold,
silver, copper, nickel or other types of minerals found in the earth.
So the Pentacle represents money, finances and wealth, minerals and
metals of all types, the land, earth, and real estate or property
ownership.
Pentacles represent anything on the material plane, including the
physical body. Pentacles represent physicality, that which is solid,
real, grounded, secure, concrete, stable, etc.
When I see the King of Pentacles in a prominent place within a tarot
spread, it usually indicates to me that real estate matters are at
hand, or the possibility of a real estate transaction, a real estate
loan or a move of some sort is coming up shortly.
Copyright ? 2005 Sherry Sims