Card 77 • pentacles

King of Pentacles

Brief Description

The King of Pentacles represents an experienced, prosperous leader or successful businessman with expertise, strong administrative skills, and the ability to achieve long-term goals and stability. The card advises using your talents and resources for a large, long-running project, emphasizing that you are capable of building your own empire. It warns against approaching people and life purely as transactions, reminding you that not everything can be bought and that such an approach will bring hard lessons. In reverse, the card signals extreme materialism, greed, potential financial difficulties, danger, and a lack of integrity.

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Card Title

KING OF PENTACLES

Upright

An experienced leader or a successful businessman who can reach the set goals that lead to prosperity. Great prospects in long-term business projects and relationships. Expertise, good administrative qualities. Patron, sponsor. A person who can live in style and loves working.

Card's advice

The wisest thing to do is to use your talents and resources for a big, long-running task. You are capable of building your own empire.

The warning

If you don't change your approach to people and life, you will soon learn the hard way that not everything can be bought and sold.

Reverse

Extreme materialism and soulless approach where everything is motivated by profit and greed. A streak of financial difficulties with unpredictable expenses. Being on thin ice, danger. Lust, corruption, lack of integrity.

Quick Answer

The wishes of men of merit come true.

Visual Description

A crowned, bearded king sits on a throne ornamented with bull heads, wearing a purple robe and a heavy black cloak. He holds a large golden pentacle in his left hand and a scepter in his right. A grapevine with leaves and clusters of grapes grows at his feet and climbs up before the throne. Above him is a decorative letter 'K' and a banner at the bottom reads the title in Cyrillic.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Alexander Ray

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