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✶ The Study Deck

Knight of Pentacles

Pentacles, of the lesser arcana

Waite & Colman Smith, 1909 · described 1911

He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He exhibits his symbol, but does not look therein.

the plate, in waite's words · the painted card will hang here in time

In divination

Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude—all on the normal and external plane.

Reversed: Inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness.

The library's note

He rides "a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds," Waite writes, exhibiting his pentacle without ever actually looking at it. Utility, responsibility, and rectitude fill the compiled reading Waite gives this rank, "all on the normal and external plane," the suit's material concern carried here as plain endurance, a far heavier gait than the wands' Knight keeps at the same rank two suits over.

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Sources & Further Reading

  1. Waite, A. E. (1911). The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. Card text quoted verbatim, his punctuation kept. (Public domain.)
  2. Card described at: http://sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/pktpekn.htm

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