Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck

A person in the guise of a merchant weighs money in a pair of scales and distributes it to the needy and distressed. It is a testimony to his own success in life, as well as to his goodness of heart.

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 Six of Pentacles from the Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Upright

Presents, gifts, gratification another account says attention, vigilance now is the accepted time, present prosperity, etc.

Reversed

Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Ruin.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

The present must not be relied on.

Reversed

A check on the Querent's ambition.

Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings

Pleasure. Good news. Annoyances overcome Good fortune.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Presents, Gifts, Gratification

Reversed

Ambition, Desire, Passion, Aim, Longing.

Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings

unhappy marriage and divorce; separation from an old friend, or from a kind female friend.