
The King of Pentacles is the fourth court card of the pentacles suit in the minor arcana and represents mature masculine energy that’s providing, fatherly, financially abundant and successful. The King of Pentacles can represent you or another person who takes on these qualities.
The King of Pentacles is connected to the element earth and the planet Venus, as he’s focused on nurturing his material resources in order to create financial wealth. He is someone who’s very smart when it comes to investment opportunities and knows which one’s will result in a prosperous return.
The King of Pentacles can show that you’re working to create wealth in your life by investing your resources and energy into the right opportunities. It also shows your ability to provide for yourself and/or your family and that you may be playing this role in a specific situation in your life.
The King of Pentacles Meaning
This card represents someone who’s in a position of leadership when it comes to business and creating financial wealth. The King of Pentacles is someone who can easily spot opportunities that will lead towards growth and financial success, as he’s mastered the material realm.
The image on the card shows a man sitting on a throne that’s decorated with bull heads representing the sign of Taurus. He’s wearing a robe decorated with grapes signifying wealth and abundance. Behind him is a castle signifying the legacy he has built for himself through his hard work and determination. In one hand he holds a scepter and the other he holds a coin signifying the power he has over the material realm.
The King of Pentacles is the business owner as he has both the vision and the determination to pursue a goal and commit to seeing it through until he achieves success. He’s motivated by his vision which allows him to easily attract financial opportunities and abundance to himself. The King of Pentacles is also very practical, organized, methodical, patient and grounded.
Therefore, when the King of Pentacles comes up in a reading it can mean that you’re embodying these energies or someone else around you is playing this role in your life. Alternatively, the King of Pentacles can also represent things like being overly stubborn, materialistic and too focused on money. Always look to the cards around it for clarification or to get a deeper meaning.
Upright
Material wealth, financial success, a father figure, being in the role of provider, business leadership, financial security, prosperity, abundance.
Reversed
Being overly focused on money, workaholic, not being able to grow financially, loss of an investment, not being able to provide, being overly stubborn.
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