1. Tarot
2. Card meanings
3. Ace of Pentacles

Minor Arcana · Pentacles

Ace of Pentacles

• perfect contentment
• felicity

Upright meaning

Perfect contentment and felicity: a solid, practical beginning. A card of firm ground.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite reads both the uneasy side of wealth and great riches, and says it still shows comfortable material conditions: it depends how they are used.

• great riches
• prosperity
• comfortable material conditions

Symbolism

A hand from a cloud holds up a pentacle over a garden path and archway.

Group

Minor Arcana · Pentacles

Element, astrology

Not given by Waite, so we give none

Source

Our own plain-English summary of A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1911), Part III §2 (The Lesser Arcana). The keywords are Waite’s own words. Waite’s fortune-telling lists also contain harsher terms; we keep to the reflective readings he gives and never state an event as certain.

Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction of fixed outcomes. This is not medical, legal or financial advice.