PENTACLES · VI
Six of Pentacles
Resource in motion. Giving, receiving, a fair wage, a gift with a scale in it. Recovery in earth is circulation — and the scale asks whether the giving is dignity or theater.
- ELEMENT
- earth
- NUMBER
- Six — recovery: a merchant weighing alms, gold as a just flow.
- SYMBOLS
- a standing figure with a scale, coins dropping into an outstretched hand · a second figure kneeling or standing in need, the exchange visible · a pair of scales, justice come down into the marketplace · a city street, charity as a public grammar, for better and worse
UPRIGHT
- +help that actually arrives
- +balanced exchange
- +using surplus as a bridge, not as a pedestal
- −charity as dominance
- −debt disguised as a gift
- −shame in the receiving hand
- IN LOVE
- Uneven means. Talk about money and care. Do not buy the bond, and do not refuse a hand because pride is loud.
- IN WORK
- Payroll, grants, sliding scale, a raise. Make the scale honest. If you receive, receive cleanly.
- IN SELF
- You will be on both sides of this card in a life. Neither side is a soul. Circulation is.
REVERSED
The scale is off — strings on the gift, a blocked flow, or generosity used to keep someone kneeling.
- Blocked — the upright current exists and is dammed.
- Shadow — the unused face of the card.
- Excess — the current is overplayed.
Blocked Six of Pentacles stops the flow. Shadow Six buys power. Excess Six gives until the giver is the one in snow.
- PAIRS WELL WITH
- JusticeFive of PentaclesThe EmpressTen of Pentacles
- TENSES WITH
- Four of PentaclesThe DevilFive of Swords
WHAT WE WILL NOT SAY ABOUT THIS PLATE
- what goes around comes around, so give
- you should be more generous, you're selfish
- take the money, don't ask questions