Earth · 14 cards
Pentacles
Pentacles are the suit of earth: work, money, the body, the home and the material world. They are what you build, keep and can hold in your hands. The pentacle is a coin marked with a star, and older decks call the suit Coins or Disks, but Smith's cards are about more than money: they are about craft, patience, health, gardens and the long work of making a life that holds.
Pentacles are the slowest suit and the most dependable. They rarely surprise, and what they promise tends to arrive, a season or a year later than you wanted and more solid than you expected.
- Element
- Earth
- Signs
- Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
- Temper
- Slow, steady, practical, patient
- Speaks of
- Money, work, home, health, craft
Reading the Pentacles
When Pentacles dominate
The question is practical, even if it feels emotional: money, work, health or a home. Look at what is physically in front of you.
Reversed Pentacles
Material worries, neglect of the body or of the work, or the opposite: a grip on security so tight it stops you living. Ask what you are guarding, and why.
In timing
Pentacles are slow. Many readers count them in months or years.
Ace to Ten
The court
Spreads for the Pentacles
5 cards
Career pathWhere you stand, what you can draw on, what blocks you and the next step: Pentacles speak plainly about work.12 cards
Year wheelA year of twelve cards shows the slow, seasonal changes Pentacles are made of.7 cards
ChakraThe root chakra is Pentacles ground: home, money, safety and the body.