Your Chosen Card – Six of Pentacles Upright Rider Waite Deck
When upright, the Six of Pentacles implies that money and resources are being apportioned in a fair and socially responsible manner. If your financial situation is secure, you may be called upon to assist those who are less fortunate. If you are experiencing a present need, essential resources and financial aid are likely to become available. An essential meaning of this card is that something of value is being passed from one person to another in a spirit of true generosity. In the words of President John F. Kennedys 1961 inaugural address, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.’ If your question was about the best time to act, this card suggests that now is the opportune moment. Now! The idea that the present is the accepted time may be related to this cards association with the Moon as it goes through phases, but astrologically it is at its best when it transits the sign Taurus.
Keywords Upright: Generosity, kindness, material success, goodness of heart, sharing resources, receiving assistance, support, being supported, financial aid, benevolence, mentoring, patronage, charity, giving and receiving, philanthropy, accomplishment, prosperity, social responsibility, equitable distribution of wealth, taking care of present needs; now, at present, currently, at this time. (Note that traditionally the Six of Pentacles refers to now and the Six of Cups refers to the past.)
Timing: 10 Taurus20 Taurus. Tropical, 1 May10 May. Sidereal, 4 June14 June.
Astrology: The emotional and sensitive Moon (exalted) in the second decan of earthy Taurus, realm of the Waite King/Thoth Prince of Pentacles (Air of Earth) and the Hierophant (Taurus). The Moon is linked to the High Priestess.
Number Symbolism: 6 – harmony, communication, sharing, compassion.
Rider Waite: A person in the guise of a merchant weighs money in a pair of scales and distributes it to the needy and distressed. It is a testimony to his own success in life, as well as to his goodness of heart. Divinatory Meanings: Presents, gifts, gratification another account says attention, vigilance, now is the accepted time, present prosperity (R) desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.
When Six of Pentacles is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If Six of Pentacles is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Six of Pentacles is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for Six of Pentacles using cards from the Rider Waite Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Creative Tarot: Late in his life, Dalí decided to create his own deck of tarot cards. He worked from the basic definitions of the cards as outlined by Waite and Smith, but he deviated from their basic templates. He used images that came to him in dreams, alongside ancient Roman and Christian iconography to create a very surrealist deck. Where Smith created clean, simple to understand images, Dalí designed bizarre landscapes. The great Spanish artist was nearing the end of his life, and his cards images are based on a lifetime of knowledge of art history, the power of the icon and the symbol, and many figuressuch as his strangely elegant elephants with long, spidery legsthat recurred in his artwork throughout his career.
Complete Book of Tarot: Unfortunately, complete sets of these early tarot cards no longer exist. The Pierpont-Morgan Bergamo deck, produced in 1451, originally consisted of seventy-eight cards. The Cary-Yale deck, which may be the oldest extant set of tarot, probably contained eighty-six cards in all. At some point, card makers decided to limit the ‘standard’ tarot deck to seventy-eight cards comprised of twenty-two trumps, forty numbered pip cards, and sixteen court cards, as we have today.
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