King of Pentacles

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King of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning

Confidence • Reliability • Experience

The King of Pentacles is likely a person (or you) who embodies success and status through hard work and genuine relationship-building. You can expect this person to be good at the daily aspects of life such as budgeting and family life.

Although quite successful, this person is humble and dependable. They have a maturity to them that makes trustworthy as resource of intelligence and experience. The King of Pentacles is kind and patient, and treats colleagues like real family. This card is also one of discipline and high expectations. The King of Pentacles got to where he is with hard work, so he expects the highest efforts from those he helps.

If this card appears in a reading for you, a person, likely someone older, with the characteristics of the King of Pentacles may soon enter your life or play a defining role. In other cases, the King of Pentacles appears to be a message that you have been handling your day-to-day life very well. This card may be a sign of financial promotion.

King of Pentacles Reversed

Irresponsibility • Controlling • Rigid

The King of Pentacles reversed indicates a tendency not to listen to others’ needs or a rigid business strategy. It can mean you are being domineering with your family members or colleagues with well-meaning but irrelevant standards—like someone who requires time-logging because they do not trust their workers to do their jobs.

If you get the reversed King of Pentacles in a reading, it’s an indicator of imbalance. Because of the suit, pentacles, the solution to this imbalance has to do with day-to-day life. If you are feeling stuck or in a rut, you can begin to heal by turning off your technology and reconnecting with the world around you. A helpful exercise to balance the reversed King of Pentacles would be reviewing your bank statements.