Tarot · Pentacles
Ace of Pentacles
- opportunity
- foundation
- seed
The picture
A hand reaches out of a cloud holding a large pentacle above a flowering garden, where an arch in a hedge opens onto distant mountains.
The meaning
The Ace of Pentacles lies heavy and solid in the hand. The tradition reads it as an opportunity, a foundation and the seed of something lasting. It stands for a beginning in the world of things: a job, a place, a plan with its feet on the ground. The path through the garden arch leads on.
Reversed
Reversed, it is read as a missed opportunity, or a plan that still lacks firm ground.
In love
In love it is read as a relationship with its feet on the ground, or a beginning meant to last.
At work
At work it stands for a new offer, a post or a project on a sound footing.
As your card of the day
An opportunity may lie before you today that does not look like much. Take it in hand.
The Ace of Pentacles stands for a solid beginning. Do something practical today for a plan that matters to you.
Pentacles belong to earth. The tradition reads them as work, the body, possessions and everything we build with our hands.
Picture: Pamela Colman Smith, Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, 1909, public domain (Wikimedia Commons).