The Tarot Deck

Ace of Pentacles – Solid Foundation

Ace of Pentacles Tarot Card – Minor Arcana
As with all the Ace cards a hand reaches through a cloud and in this case holds the pentacle or coin.

The Ace of Pentacles is a card of a new beginnings and a firm foundation, a Tarot card of prosperity and comfortable material conditions. As with all pentacle cards it holds close to the financial side such as a new job, financial opportunity, or business partnership. This could be disguised as a new relationship that could bring prosperity.

Upright: Good fortune, those firm foundations can build into something.

Reversed: The evil side of wealth or bad intelligence. Wasting your good foundation.

10 of Pentacles – Share It with the Family

Ten of Pentacles Tarot Card – Minor Arcana

A man and woman stand within an arched entry way to an estate. A child is present watching two dogs. An elderly man pets of the dogs. The three generations represent the presence of family.

The ten of pentacles represents the relationship between family and finances.

Upright: The pay off of your hard work is vast enough to share with your family. There could be an inheritance or other gain in riches related to the family. The residence of a family.

Reversed: There may be a loss in the family perhaps of a fatality or pertaining to family wealth, robbery. Perhaps a conflict amongst family members.

5 of Pentacles – You Need Only to Ask

5 of Pentacles of the Tarot Deck – Minor Arcana – Two beggars walk through the snow passing by a window full of light and warmth.

Upright: The coming of material trouble, financial problems, perhaps the loss of job. Another interpretation, you may need to seek the support of family and friends to get through some hard times, you only need to ask. These two alternative meanings may be harmonized or coordinated. As with any difficult times it may strengthen your character and the relationships of those who stood by you.

Reversed: You have just come out of your hard times. There is friction with those who should be helping you. Or you are being reckless only to feed the hardships of your current situation.

4 of Pentacles – Penny Pincher

Four of Pentacles of the Tarot Deck – Minor Arcana – A crowned figure sits outside a city. The figure firmly grasps a pentacle in his, with two pentacles secured beneath his feet, and balances a pentacle on his crown.

Upright: Having a firm grip and control of your possessions, often being finances but can be any of your possessions, certainly material. Inheritance.

Reversed: A warning about becoming to cheap, stingy, hording your possessions. Miserly. Control freak, micro-managing to the point of causing opposition.

8 of Pentacles – Mastery of Skills

Eight of Pentacles Tarot card – Minor Arcana
An artisan uses his skills to create pentacles. He shows off his trophies and skills by placing them high on a tree.

Upright:
Your skills are developing. These skills may be for work and employment, a hobby or craft. The eight of pentacles lets you know you are well on your way to becoming an expert.

Reversed:
Lack of ambition to build those skills. Using your skill for deception. Vanity and Greed.