Six of Pentacles Suit of Pentacles · tarot card meaning
- Decan
- Moon in Taurus
- Title
- Lord of Material Success
- Yes or no
- Yes
Six of Pentacles upright
The Six of Pentacles is help offered from a position of greater security. Gifts, attention, or present prosperity can bring real relief. The merchant gives with one hand while the other keeps control of the scales.
Yes or no: Yes, with attention to balance. Gifts, support, or present prosperity favor the answer.
Six of Pentacles reversed
Reversed, the Six of Pentacles turns the exchange toward desire, greed, envy, or illusion. Help may become a way to control what another person owes or expects. The scales answer to whoever holds them.
Yes or no: No. Greed, envy, jealousy, or illusion distorts the exchange behind the answer.
The card at a glance
- Attribution
- Moon in Taurus · Lord of Material Success
- System
- First printed
- Themes
- work, balance, connection
What is shown
A richly dressed merchant stands above two kneeling people. He drops coins into one pair of raised hands. The other person waits nearby. A balance hangs level from the merchant's opposite hand. Six pentacles float across the upper scene.
- Suit
- Pentacles
- Yes or no
- Yes
Six of Pentacles upright
Six coins open into a broad, balanced arrangement with several paths through it. The card represents expansion, abundant resources, movement, and success.
Yes or no: Yes. Six of Pentacles shows abundant support and several workable ways forward.
Six of Pentacles reversed
Reversed, the same expansive field remains, but direction becomes less certain. Abundance needs balance between stability and movement.
Yes or no: It depends. Reversed, resources are present, but their direction remains unsettled.
The Marseille Six of Pentacles is read through its six-coin grid and the crossbars breaking from its center, with the RWS slot used for indexing only.
The card at a glance
- Catalogue title
- Six de Deniers
- Printed numeral
- None
- Layout
- One, two, two, one
- Edition
- Themes
- work, balance, connection
- Deck
- Tarot de Marseille: Six of Pentacles (Six de Deniers)
What is shown
One coin sits at the top and one at the bottom. Two pairs occupy the middle. Broad curling leaves cradle the solitary emblems. A red-and-blue flower crosses the exact centre between the paired rows.
- Attribution
- Six of Pentacles (6)
- Yes or no
- It depends
Six of Pentacles upright
Six coins form a heap above a chamber where a crouching worker raises a mallet over an open box. Stored value and labor remain separated.
Yes or no: It depends. Six of Pentacles contains resources, but access to them requires a working connection.
Six of Pentacles reversed
Reversed, the separation hardens. Wealth stays overhead while effort below cannot easily access or change it.
Yes or no: Not yet. Reversed, effort and available support remain on separate levels.
Navigation uses the pentacles-6 slot, but Six of Pentacles's meaning is drawn from its own Sola Busca scene, not from RWS.
The card at a glance
- Attribution
- Six of Pentacles (6)
- Workshop
- First documented
- c. 1491
- Themes
- work, balance, connection
- Deck
- Sola Busca: Six of Pentacles
What is shown
Six coins form a heap above a small open-fronted structure. A crouching figure in a purple tunic raises a mallet over an open box on the floor. The doorway frames a distant landscape, and curling ribbons descend along both sides of the architecture.
Questions
What does Six of Pentacles mean?
Giving and receiving under unequal conditions. The Six of Pentacles is help offered from a position of greater security.
What does Six of Pentacles mean reversed?
Reversed, the Six of Pentacles turns the exchange toward desire, greed, envy, or illusion.
Is Six of Pentacles a yes or no card?
Yes upright, no reversed. With attention to balance.
What is shown on Six of Pentacles?
A richly dressed merchant stands above two kneeling people.
