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Ace of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning
The Ace of Pentacles tarot card means opportunity, prosperity and a solid start. A new chance to build something.
Upright
- Opportunity
- prosperity
- a solid start
Reversed
- A missed chance
- poor planning
- money worries
Yes or no
Yes
The Ace of Pentacles is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Pentacles. Pentacles are the suit of earth: money, work, home, health and the things you can touch.
What the card shows
A hand reaches out of a cloud holding a large gold pentacle over a garden. A path leads through an arch in a flowering hedge toward distant mountains.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Ace of Pentacles is read as a real-world opportunity: a job, money, a home, a healthy new habit. It is a seed with good ground under it.
Ace of Pentacles reversed
Reversed, it is read as an opportunity missed or not as good as it looked, or shaky finances.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Ace of Pentacles is usually read as a yes. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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More Pentacles cards
Two of PentaclesThree of PentaclesFour of PentaclesFive of PentaclesSix of PentaclesSeven of PentaclesEight of PentaclesNine of PentaclesTen of PentaclesPage of PentaclesKnight of PentaclesQueen of PentaclesKing of Pentacles
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