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Minor Arcana · Suit of Pentacles · Number card
Six · Pentacles
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightGenerosityFair measureGiving and receiving
↓ ReversedStrings attachedEnvyUneven exchange
What it means
↑ Upright
A merchant with scales in one hand gives with the other, weighing what each person needs. Waite reads it as gifts and gratification, and also attention — the giver is watching closely. Whichever side of the scales you stand on, give or accept with open eyes: generosity works best when it is fair, freely meant, and leaves both people standing upright.
↓ Reversed
The scales tip: a gift with strings tied to it, help that keeps someone small, or envy at what others are handed. Waite lists desire, cupidity, jealousy and illusion. Look honestly at what each side expects in return, and say it aloud; an exchange that cannot bear being named is not the kindness it appears to be.
Six is exchange, and in Pentacles the exchange is giving and receiving in material things. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows a well-dressed merchant holding a pair of scales in one hand while dropping coins with the other into the outstretched hand of one of two kneeling beggars. The scales make the gift a measured one, and Waite reads the scene as proof both of the giver's goodness of heart and of his own success in life.
Upright
Presents, gifts, gratification; another account says attention, vigilance; now is the accepted time, present prosperity, etc.
Reversed
Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.