Western Tarot symbolism
Six of Pentacles
The account describes a merchant-like figure weighing money and distributing it to people in need. It reads the scene as both success and generosity, assigning gifts and present prosperity among other meanings. The supplementary upright list cautions that the present must not be relied upon. Reversed it checks ambition, differing from the main reversed terms of envy, desire and illusion.
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The card account
LiteraryThe account describes a merchant-like figure weighing money and distributing it to people in need. It reads the scene as both success and generosity, assigning gifts and present prosperity among other meanings.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe supplementary upright list cautions that the present must not be relied upon. Reversed it checks ambition, differing from the main reversed terms of envy, desire and illusion.
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
weighs money in a pair of scales and distributes it to the needy and distressed. It is a tes- timony to his own success in Hfe,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 142
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-P0142
- Original scan leaf
- 148
- Recorded leaf number
- 148
- Current Reader position
- 142
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Six.—The present must not be relied on. Reversed: A. check on the Querent's ambition. Five.—Conquest of fortune by reason. Reversed: Troubles in love. Four.—For a bachelor,Open 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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