King of Pentacles

The face of this figure is dark, suggesting courage, and the bull's head should be noted as a recurrent symbol on the throne. The sign of this suit is represented throughout as engraved with the pentigram, typifying the correspondence of the four elements in human nature and that by which they may be governed. In old Tarot packs this suit represented money. The consensus of divinatory meanings is on the side of change, as the cards do not deal especially with questions of money.

Divinatory meaning

Valor, intelligence, business, mathematical gifts, and success in these paths.

Reversed

Vice, weakness, perversity, peril. [Illustration]

From The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A. E. Waite, page 57 of the library’s copy. The words are Waite’s.