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Minor Arcana · Suit of Pentacles · Court card
Page of Pentacles
Page · Pentacles
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightDiligent studyA practical startNews worth weighing
↓ ReversedScattered effortLavishnessUnwelcome news
What it means
↑ Upright
A young figure holds a single pentacle up to the light and studies it, unhurried and absorbed. Read it as someone near you with a student's patience, or as a call to become that learner yourself: to apply yourself, read, practice, plan. Waite also reads it as news and the one who brings it, so treat what reaches you as material to study before acting on it.
↓ Reversed
Application slips into dissipation: study left half done, attention scattered, time and money spent lavishly on the look of learning rather than the thing, sometimes with unwelcome news besides. It may be a person who promises much and finishes little, or your own habit of starting over. Pick one practical aim and stay with it until it shows something.
What's on the card
A young man stands alone in a green field of flowers, holding a single pentacle up between his raised hands and gazing at it intently. Behind him lie a freshly plowed field, a grove of trees and a distant hill. Waite describes him as moving slowly, unaware of what is around him: the earnest student, wholly taken up with one practical aim, with the plowed ground showing the work still to be done.
Waite's meaning, 1910
Upright
Application, study, scholarship, reflection; another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management.
Reversed
Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury, unfavorable news.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.