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Minor Arcana · Suit of Pentacles · Number card
Three · Pentacles
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightSkilled workWorking togetherRecognition earned
↓ ReversedHalf-hearted workPettinessPoor teamwork
What it means
↑ Upright
A craft practiced in company: the sculptor on his bench, the two who commissioned the work holding its plans below him. Waite's meanings cover both the trade itself and the renown it brings. Good work is seen when it is shared, so show what you are making to the people it is for, listen to their plans, and let each of you do the part you do best.
↓ Reversed
Mediocrity creeps in: work done to get it over with, or a team that has stopped listening. Small quarrels over credit can spoil a building that everyone wanted. Return to the standard you would set if your name were carved on it, and settle who decides what before the next stone is laid.
Three is growth, and in Pentacles it is skill that grows by working with others. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows a young stonemason on a bench in a church archway, turning to two figures below him, a monk and a cloaked man holding a drawing, with three pentacles carved into the stone above. Craft, faith and design meet in one building; the card is about work done well because each part falls to the person suited to it.
Upright
Métier, trade, skilled labor; usually, however, regarded as a card of nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory.
Reversed
Mediocrity, in work and otherwise, puerility, pettiness, weakness.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.