I hope you have enjoyed the Pentacle Power Series !  Writing it certainly allowed me to develop some wonderful Earth-element qualities in myself:  a little more discipline, a bit more patience, greater commitment.  This series started with an idea — a wonderful “What if…?” — and through dedication, study, and actual effort, has manifested itself [...]

The culmination of the Court cards is the King of Pentacles, and there are some major differences that set him apart from the Page, the Knight, and his Queen.  These differences demonstrate the final mastery of the element of Earth and what we can expect as we “come into our own” in the realm of [...]

The beautiful Queen of Pentacles sits on a throne surrounded by examples of fertility both natural and man-made.  As we move from the Knight to the Queen, there are a number of shifts that show an increase in power and wisdom as relates to the Earth element.
For one, the Queen is seated on a throne [...]

Looking at the Knight in comparison to the Page, we can see how the Knight has grown into his position.  For one, he is nearer the plowed field and less in the open expanses of Nature.  Or perhaps, the field is indeed much larger and he has brought more of the element under his control.  [...]

We enter the Court of Pentacles through the gate of the Page of Pentacles.  Here we see a young man, dressed in the green of the fields and the ruddy browns of freshly turned earth.  He is dressed well, showing his station, and in his hands is balanced a pentacle, the symbol of this suit [...]

… And a partridge in a pear tree!
As we reach the last of the Pentacle pips (not to be confused with Gladys Knight and her Pips), there is a sense of completion, of fulfillment.  The promise of the Ace has been made true and brought to earth.  No longer merely a hand in the sky, [...]

The Nine of Pentacles is what I call the “posh” card of the deck.  It doesn’t have the “Ha!  Look at me!  Ain’t this great?” quality I see in the Nine of Cups, and it’s certainly a far cry from the mental anguish of the Nine of Swords and the en-guarde atmosphere of the Nine [...]

There is a difference between the generation of pentacles in the Seven and the generation seen here in the Eight.  The Seven of Pentacles is themed around growth, around cultivation of something that grows with the aid of natural assistance.  In other words, it has help from the cycles of Nature and the forces that [...]

No, I’m not talking about the teen-party game involving closets and hormones.  I’m talking about having very little time to post this morning and needing to run out the door to my day job in, oh, seven minutes.  So, for the next seven minutes, I’m going to do what I love — write! about the [...]

There are three major lessons that I see instantly in this card:
1.  Our blessings sometimes come in disguise, otherwise we might not accept them. Rider-Waite describes the central figure in the card as “a man dressed as a merchant”.  Not a merchant himself, but someone who deliberately dresses to fulfill a certain expectation.  This figure [...]