King of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning and Art Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present. I made a digitally retouched and painted version of this deck, which I call the "Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck". The cards from that deck, as well as a modern English translation of the romantic English descriptions by Arthur Edward Waite (as appear on the Waite Smith Tarot deck) appear in a cross-referenced format in my book, "A Concise Guide to the Tarot: In Vivid Color"
Provenance
Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.
Tags
pentacles-14, king-of-coins, king, pentacles
Description
The figure calls for no special description the face is rather dark, suggesting also courage, but somewhat lethargic in tendency. The bull's head should be noted as a recurrent symbol on the throne. The sign of this suit is represented throughout as engraved or blazoned with the pentagram, typifying the correspondence of the four elements in human nature and that by which they may be governed. In many old Tarot packs this suit stood for current coin, money, deniers. I have not invented the substitution of pentacles and I have no special cause to sustain in respect of the alternative. But the consensus of divinatory meanings is on the side of some change, because the cards do not happen to deal especially with questions of money.Meaning of King of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
The figure calls for no special description the face is rather dark, suggesting also courage, but somewhat lethargic in tendency. The bull'Valour, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in these paths.
Reversed
Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Fair man. Inimical or indifferent.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
A rather dark man, a merchant, master, professor.
Reversed
An old and vicious man.
Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings
Fortune from the sea. Enterprises successful. Misfortune. Loss.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
A dark Man, Victory, Bravery, Courage, Success
Reversed
An old and vicious Man, a Dangerous Man, Doubt, Fear, Peril, Danger.
P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
A very fair or white-haired man, a soldier by profession, and of a deceitful turn of mind
Reversed
a treacherous schemer.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
a joyful bridal; a happy wedding-day: endeavors toward a union with a beloved object
