tarot card meanings · minor arcana · pentacles

knight of pentacles tarot card, original ink-line art

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.