PENTACLES · King
King of Pentacles
Orchard stewardship. Money, land, a company, a family craft — held so it can outlast you. The king is not the richest person; the king is the one who keeps the trees.
- ELEMENT
- earth
- NUMBER
- Court — steward: orchard stewardship. The coin as a city you are responsible for.
- MODE
- Steward — the quality held for others
- SYMBOLS
- a seated figure with a disc on the knee, a castle behind, vines on the robe · a heavy crown, wealth as office not as a mood · a foot on stone, the body as the last argument of the suit · a look of appraisal, the orchard counted and still living
UPRIGHT
- +responsible plenty
- +mentorship in the real
- +a life whose floor can hold other lives
- −conservatism as a refusal of the living vine
- −people treated as assets
- −a castle that only the king may enter
- IN LOVE
- Provider energy as devotion. Provide. Also be a person, not a pension. Let the other own a tree.
- IN WORK
- Ownership, investment, the long books. Steward. Pay fairly. The orchard is not a scoreboard.
- IN SELF
- You may be the adult of matter. That is an office with hours. The robe can come off.
REVERSED
The orchard is mismanaged — greed, collapse, or a king who will not take the seat when the trees need a keeper.
- Blocked — the upright current exists and is dammed.
- Shadow — the unused face of the card.
- Excess — the current is overplayed.
Blocked King of Pentacles abdicates the real. Excess King is all castle. Shadow King extracts from the orchard until it is a ledger.
- PAIRS WELL WITH
- The EmperorTen of PentaclesQueen of PentaclesThe World
WHAT WE WILL NOT SAY ABOUT THIS PLATE
- a rich older man, a provider
- money is power, take it
- be the boss of the material world