Western Tarot symbolism
Queen of Pentacles
The source portrays the Queen contemplating a pentacle and imagines that she may see worlds in it. It links her aspect with greatness of soul and a serious intelligence, then assigns opulence, generosity and security. The additional list narrows this to a wealthy relative's presents or a rich marriage, and assigns illness reversed. The main reversed list instead concerns suspicion and mistrust, making the accounts materially different.
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The card account
LiteraryThe source portrays the Queen contemplating a pentacle and imagines that she may see worlds in it. It links her aspect with greatness of soul and a serious intelligence, then assigns opulence, generosity and security.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe additional list narrows this to a wealthy relative's presents or a rich marriage, and assigns illness reversed. The main reversed list instead concerns suspicion and mistrust, making the accounts materially different.
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
greatness of soul; she has also the serious cast of intehigence; she contemplates her symbol and may see worlds therein. Divinatory Meanings: Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security,Open 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 135
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-P0135
- Original scan leaf
- 141
- Recorded leaf number
- 141
- Current Reader position
- 135
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Queen.—Dark woman; presents from a rich relative; rich and happy marriage for a young man. Reversed: An illness. Knight.—A useful man; useful discoveries. Reversed: A braveOpen 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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