Six of Pentacles
The Six of Coins represents charity, generosity, sharing, community, and the moral obligations tied to wealth. It emphasizes the justice and fairness in the distribution of resources and highlights the importance of giving proportionately to support communal self-sufficiency. It calls attention to the roles of spiritual leadership and societal hierarchies in fostering equitable communities.
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The Six of Coins explores the concepts of charity, generosity, sharing, community and the obligations of class and wealth. In my version of the card, I wanted to approach these ideas through the Jewish concept of tzedakah—the moral obligation of every individual, no matter their social status, to partake in charitable giving. Charity fosters community, and, ideally, the purpose of community is to support each of its members to ensure the survival and success of all.
Tzedakah
Tzedakah specifically is not just about charitable giving—it is about justice and our obligation to our fellow human beings as a communal species. It focuses on anonymous giving, on giving proportionately in accordance with our means, and on giving in order to set those members of the community on a path to self-sufficiency.
Smith-Waite Version
In the Smith-Waite version of the card, a wealthy man holds a set of scales and distributes coins to people beneath him in social and financial standing. The presence of the scales hearkens back to Justice and implies that the wealth is being distributed fairly, according to each person’s needs. However, historically, the richest among us are rarely generous, and certainly not the best or fairest of judges when it comes to distributing their wealth.
My Version
A rabbi distributes the coins in my card instead. I wanted to preserve the sense of hierarchy present among the depicted figures, but I wanted the leader to be a spiritual one, representing a faith that, generally speaking, encourages its believers to question its teachings, to have a healthy curiosity about the world, and to always be learning. The rabbi holds only two coins, which he distributes evenly among the supplicants. The rest hang in the air, accessible to those who would participate in the spirit of generosity and the cyclical exchange of giving.
Fyodor Pavlov tarot
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