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

Minor Arcana · Pentacles

Knight of Pentacles

• utility
• serviceableness
• responsibility
• rectitude

Upright meaning

Steady work: Waite gives utility, serviceableness and responsibility. Slow, reliable progress.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite gives placidity and repose, also stagnation. A prompt to get moving again, gently.

• placidity
• repose

Symbolism

A knight on a slow, heavy horse holds up a pentacle.

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.