Western Tarot symbolism
Ace of Pentacles
The main account describes a hand emerging from a cloud with a pentacle. It associates the card with contentment and prosperity, but says that comfortable material conditions may or may not advantage the possessor according to orientation. The reversed list can still include great riches alongside an evil side of wealth. The supplementary list calls it the most favourable card upright and assigns a share in discovered treasure reversed.
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In the sources
The card account
LiteraryThe main account describes a hand emerging from a cloud with a pentacle. It associates the card with contentment and prosperity, but says that comfortable material conditions may or may not advantage the possessor according to orientation.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe reversed list can still include great riches alongside an evil side of wealth. The supplementary list calls it the most favourable card upright and assigns a share in discovered treasure reversed.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
In any case it shows prosperity, comfortable material conditions, but whether these are of advantage to the possessor will depend on whether the card is reversedOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 147
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0147
- Original scan leaf
- 153
- Recorded leaf number
- 153
- Current Reader position
- 147
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Ace.—The most favorable of all cards. Reversed: A share in the finding of treasure. It will be observed (i) that these additamenta have little connection withOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 152
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0152
- Original scan leaf
- 158
- Recorded leaf number
- 158
- Current Reader position
- 152
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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Ace of Swords
A crowned sword represents force whose outcome is not uniformly favourable.
Shared source pageEight of Pentacles
Stone work supplies an image of craft that can be preparatory rather than complete.
Shared source pageFive of Pentacles
Two figures passing a lit window receive explicitly incompatible interpretations.
Shared source pageFour of Pentacles
A figure holding several pentacles gives possession a concrete visual arrangement.