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Minor Arcana · Suit of Pentacles · Number card
Two · Pentacles
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightKeeping balanceAdaptabilityMany things moving
↓ ReversedForced cheerOverstretchedDropped threads
What it means
↑ Upright
Two things kept in the air at once, and kept there with some grace: work and home, two commitments, a day full of messages. Waite sees both the dance and the agitation behind it, and the sea in the picture rises and falls while the dancer keeps time. Stay nimble, and decide which of the two you would catch first if one began to fall.
↓ Reversed
A smile kept up over too much in hand: forced cheer, enjoyment put on for show. Letters and paperwork wait unanswered while the juggling goes on. Put one thing down on purpose and deal with it properly; a single matter closed steadies you more than a dozen kept spinning.
Two in Pentacles is a pair of demands on one pair of hands, kept in balance. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows a young man in a tall hat dancing as he juggles two pentacles, joined by a green cord looped like the sign for infinity, while two ships pitch on high waves behind. The endless loop is a balance that never rests; the ships show that the world around him is far from steady.
Upright
On the one hand it is represented as a card of gaiety, recreation and its connections, which is the subject of the design; but it is read also as news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.
Reversed
Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.