Western Tarot symbolism
Knight of Pentacles
The account makes the Knight's aspect correspond with his slow, enduring horse. He exhibits the symbol without looking into it, and the main meanings place utility, responsibility and rectitude on an ordinary external plane. The supplementary list gives a useful man and useful discoveries. Its reversed unemployed brave man differs from the main list's inertia, stagnation and carelessness.
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The card account
LiteraryThe account makes the Knight's aspect correspond with his slow, enduring horse. He exhibits the symbol without looking into it, and the main meanings place utility, responsibility and rectitude on an ordinary external plane.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe supplementary list gives a useful man and useful discoveries. Its reversed unemployed brave man differs from the main list's inertia, stagnation and carelessness.
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
slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He exhibits his symbol, but does not look therein. Divinatory Meanings: Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude—allOpen 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 136
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-P0136
- Original scan leaf
- 142
- Recorded leaf number
- 142
- Current Reader position
- 136
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Knight.—A useful man; useful discoveries. Reversed: A brave man out of employment. Page.—A dark youth ; a young officer or soldier ; a child. Reversed: SometimesOpen 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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