tarot card meanings · minor arcana · pentacles
knight of pentacles — tarot card meaning
- the pursuer
The pursuer of matter, work, money, the body, what endures: The suit in motion; zeal, quest, energy that must learn its own aim.
reversed
The knight's virtue overdone or immature within the realm of matter, work, money, the body, what endures.
two philosophical anchors, cited
Impulse under review · Epictetus, Discourses 3.23 · after Long
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Action without attachment · Bhagavad Gita 2.47 · after Besant
“Thy right is to the work, but never to its fruits.”
the question we would ask
Is this pursuit a direction you chose, or a momentum you inherited?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.