Knight of Pentacles – Love and Relationship Outcome
The Knight of Pentacles in a Tarot reading represents someone who could help you out of financial trouble and help bring structure and order to your life. Not the most imaginative but good at making plans or the future, plus they are someone that you could rely on for help when needed.
Reversed
In the reversed position you would end up doing all the work to make up for their idleness and lack of motivation.
Knight of Pentacles – As a Man, Outcome and Feelings
A good help, discreet aid in financial difficulties, paying of debts; advantage, interest, etc. And the person who brings these to the querent. Loan, inheritance, advance, present. Happy memories, collections and collecting, recollection; savings. Persons whom we have known before or who stand in a near relation to us than is known or announced publicly. In weak cases: indolence, secret enjoyment, idleness, stagnation, etc. A. E. Thierens, [1930]
Knight of Pentacles
Pictorial Key to the Tarot – Rider-Waite-Smith By A.E. Waite (1911), tarot card illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith (1911)
Description
He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He exhibits his symbol, but does not look therein.
Meanings Knight of Pentacles in a Reading
Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude-all on the normal and external plane.
Knight of Pentacles – Reversed
Inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness.
Additional Divinatory Meanings
An useful man; useful discoveries.
Additional Meanings – Reversed
A brave man out of employment.
The Tarot
By S. L. MacGregor Mathers, c 1888
Knight of Pentacles
Divinatory Meanings
Knight of Pentacles – A useful Man, Trustworthy, Wisdom, Economy, Order, Regulation.
Divinatory Meanings – Reversed
A brave Man, but out of Employment, Idle, Unemployed, Negligent.
General Book of the Tarot
By A. E. Thierens, [1930]
Knight of Pentacles
Tradition
Utility, advantage, serviceableness, profit, interest, gain, importance, necessity. Reversed it is said to give: Repose, tranquillity, apathy, inertia, idleness, discouragement; also recreation, etc.
Theory
The Fire on the Eighth and on the Fourth house, personified. The traditional renderings are not bad but far from complete. The eighth house is that of our debts, money of other people and of the dead in particular. So the querent may profit by legacies or inheritance. Consequently the benefic influence on the weak point in our material conditions may be interpreted as: advantage, interest, etc. But the knight is always a personification, too, and this is not given in the traditional interpretation. We must see him as a person who is obliging, carrying out a will, coming to the aid of the querent, secretly or confidentially perhaps, at least not publicly, visiting him in his house, saving him from material and financial troubles. It may be a loan, inheritance or advance, but without any hard conditions connected with it, so it may be a present. On the other hand the houses mentioned give the tendency to retire from the outer world; this accounts for renderings such as ‘inactivity, inertia,’ etc. . . . We should say, it means the tendency to enjoy the good things of the heart(s) within one’s own private or family circle, in repose, in some retreat, secretly. In weak cases there may be some danger of degeneration into idleness or indolence, etc. In connection with the fourth house, ruling family matters and the past, the home and the storehouse (of memory, e.g.) the card must have to do with pleasant memories, recollections, people we have known before; collections and collecting.
The Oracle of the Tarot – Exoteric Tarot
By Paul Foster Case (1933)
Knight of Pentacles
The ankh on the cube refers to the letter Vau of IHVH.
Time period
From beginning of third decanate of Leo to end of second decanate of Virgo, from August 13th to September 11th. This period is under the rulerships of Mars, Mercury and Saturn.
Meanings
A younger man than the King. Effective in action, with some power of command; good mind; but somewhat heavy and matter-of-fact. Not original or imaginative, but good at carrying out any plan that calls for intelligent action on the physical plane.
Ill-dignified
Avaricious, mean, jealous, somewhat violent, and cruel.
Appearance
Dark-brown hair, dark eyes.
Further reading
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