The Open Athenaeum

✶ The Study Deck

Page of Pentacles

Pentacles, of the lesser arcana

Waite & Colman Smith, 1909 · described 1911

A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him.

the plate, in waite's words · the painted card will hang here in time

In divination

Application, study, scholarship, reflection; another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management.

Reversed: Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.

The library's note

A youth gazes intently at a pentacle hovering above his own raised hands, moving slowly, Waite writes, "insensible of that which is about him." He carries the suit's material concern here as pure absorption, application and study named first in Waite's compiled reading, the coin not yet spent or displayed, only studied by a figure who has not looked up from it once.

a young page · the keeper's voice pass on the note is still to come

Doors Onward

Sources & Further Reading

  1. Waite, A. E. (1911). The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. Card text quoted verbatim, his punctuation kept. (Public domain.)
  2. Card described at: http://sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/pktpepa.htm

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