tarot card meanings · minor arcana · pentacles
six of pentacles — tarot card meaning
The weighed gift; generosity with scales in the other hand.
reversed
Strings attached; giving that keeps the ledger open.
two philosophical anchors, cited
How to give and receive · Seneca, On Benefits 2.1 (spirit) · after Stewart
“A benefit is judged by the spirit of the giver, not the size of the gift.”
Giving without keeping accounts · Daodejing, ch. 81 (tr. Legge)
“The sage does not accumulate; the more he expends for others, the more he possesses.”
the question we would ask
In your giving, who is the scale really for?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.