Knight of Pentacles Art and Meaning
He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He exhibits his symbol, but does not look therein.
About the Deck
Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present.
Provenance
Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.
Meaning of Knight of Pentacles from the Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude-all on the normal and external plane.
Reversed
Inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
A young, fair man. A stranger. An arrival.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
An useful man; useful discoveries.
Reversed
A brave man out of employment.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
A useful Man, Trustworthy, Wisdom, Economy, Order, Regulation
Reversed
A brave Man, but out of Employment, Idle, Unemployed, Negligent.