Ace of Pentacles

A hand--issuing, as usual, from a cloud--holds up a pentacle.

Divinatory meaning

Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold.

Reversed

The evil side of wealth, bad intelligence; also great riches. In any case it shows prosperity, comfortable material conditions, but whether these are of advantage to the possessor will depend on whether the card is reversed or not. SECTION 3 THE GREATER ARCANA AND THEIR DIVINATORY MEANINGS 1. The Magician.--Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will; the Querent, if male. Reversed: Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet. 2. The High Priestess.--Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; the woman who interests the Querent, if male; the Querent herself, if female; silence, tenacity; mystery, wisdom, science. Reversed: Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge. 3. The Empress.--Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; the unknown, clandestine; also difficulty, doubt, ignorance. Reversed: Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings; according to another reading, vacillation. 4. The Emperor.--Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction; also authority and will. Reversed: Benevolence, compassion, credit; also confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity. 5. The Hierophant.--Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude; by another account, mercy and goodness; inspiration; the man to whom the Querent has recourse. Reversed: Society, good understanding, concord, over-kindness, weakness. 6. The Lovers.--Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome. Reversed: Failure, foolish designs. Another account speaks of marriage frustrated and contrarieties of all kinds. 7. The Chariot.--Succor, providence; also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble. Reversed: Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat. 8. Fortitude.--Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity; also complete success and honors. Reversed: Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord, sometimes even disgrace. 9. The Hermit.--Prudence, circumspection; also and especially treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption. Reversed: Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution. 10. Wheel of Fortune.--Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity. Reversed: Increase, abundance, superfluity. 11. Justice.--Equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side in law. Reversed: Law in all its departments, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity. 12. The Hanged Man.--Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials,

From The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A. E. Waite, page 59 of the library’s copy. The words are Waite’s.