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The King of Pentacles card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A crowned figure sits on a throne carved with bulls among vines and grapes, a pentacle in his lap and a castle behind.

Upright

  • Stewardship
  • Providing
  • Mastery

The suit brought all the way to maturity: traditionally the card of having built something and keeping it in good order for others as well as himself.

Reversed

  • Hoarding
  • Status
  • Overcautious

Read reversed, plenty stops circulating — measured by what it is worth, held for its own sake, or defended so carefully that nothing new is risked.

About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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