Four of Pentacles
A crowned waterfowl guarding a hoard symbolizes prudence, stewardship, and the impulse to conserve resources. Upright, the card emphasizes budgeting, saving, firm boundaries, and the comfort of structure, while warning that excessive clinging can lead to possessiveness and stagnation. Reversed, it urges release—sharing, circulating resources, investing, or opening to change, though it can also indicate anxious overspending or clinging to identity or status. The guidance is to ask which treasures to keep and which to let flow, balancing thrift with trust so value can breathe and return.
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Visual description
A white duck or goose sits upright wearing a jeweled crown and layers of pearls and ornate pendants. Delicate lace-like plumage fans around it against a dark background. In front of the bird lies a heaped trove of gems, beads, and four engraved pentacle coins. The scene is lavish and tightly framed, with glittering colors of red, blue, green, and gold.
Meaning
In this deck’s Slavic-tale world, a crowned waterfowl guards a glittering hoard, and the Four of Pentacles asks what you are clutching so tightly. Upright, it is the prudence that builds a nest: budgeting, saving, establishing firm boundaries, and consolidating what you’ve earned. There is comfort in structure and the satisfaction of stewardship, like stacking coins where wind and river cannot take them. Yet the same grip can harden into a vise, turning protection into possessiveness and security into stagnation. Reversed, the card loosens the beak and talons: release a little, circulate resources, share, invest, or open your heart to change. Sometimes the reversal warns of the other extreme—spending from anxiety, guarding status while the well runs dry, or clutching an identity that no longer fits. Ask which treasure is worth keeping and which wants to flow back to the village stream. Balance thrift with trust, and let value breathe so that fortune, like a migratory bird, can return.
Slavic Legends Tarot
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