Four of Pentacles
The Four of Pentacles represents themes of retention, control, and withholding in relationships. It warns against letting past traumas close you off from genuine connection and highlights the need for open communication. This card emphasizes the importance of addressing power imbalances and finding healthy ways to manage resources, whether emotional or financial, while remaining open to love and growth.
Keywords
Keywords
Retention, grounding, control
General Love Meaning
People withhold for many reasons, whether to manipulate and control, out of fear, or due to trauma. Whatever the reason, the person who is withholding must accept responsibility for the direction they are pushing the relationship. Excluding someone you love is a conscious choice to push them away. If you need space, communicate it, take the time, and resolve it.
Single and Loving
When the Four of Pentacles appears in a Tarot reading, there is a risk that you might let some bad experiences from the past close off your ability to connect with people. You don't need to force anything—be open to new experiences and new people entering your life. This is especially true when it comes to being open to loving yourself.
Ready for Love / Dating
Dating can be expensive. You may need to conserve your hard-earned money and find some free ways to go out and socialize. On a darker note, this card can represent that someone you're trying to establish a relationship with is quite greedy or may use their money to control you.
Committed Relationship
There is a need in your family to take care of the more mundane and practical things. Perhaps you or your spouse have taken on the caregiver role for an elderly parent, or a child in the house is sick. Meanwhile, attention, time, and money will be diverted elsewhere. If you are the person taking on the primary caregiver role, communicate to your partner what you need. If you have a supporting role, this is the time for you to step up and help the helper.
Struggling Relationship
The power dynamics are really unbalanced in your relationship right now. One party is not opening up and connecting or is holding onto resentments. If one or both are more focused on the status or external appearance of the relationship than on genuine connection, then things must change soon before it's too late.
The End
If you have been undecided about breaking up with your partner and you draw the Four of Pentacles, consider what you get from the relationship. If you're with someone who is too controlling or withholds too much to meet your needs, it's time to leave that relationship and focus on yourself.
Visual Description
A domestic living room scene shows two women: one stands behind the sofa with arms folded, wearing large pentacle-shaped earrings and a pentacle pendant, while the other reclines on the sofa smiling at a smartphone. A glowing pentacle hangs as a light above them. Behind the standing woman is a shelving unit with stacked boxes, books and a small potted plant. The sofa has green cushions and the colors are warm earth tones.
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