Ace of Pentacles: tarot meaning, upright and reversed

A hand offers a pentacle above a garden and archway leading toward mountains.

Upright

opportunity · foundation

A tangible opening can become useful through attention and cultivation.

Reversed

missed opening · weak foundation

An attractive prospect may lack the conditions needed to sustain it.

In a reading

The position gives this card a particular task: a description of the situation, a challenge, or guidance. Read its image and meaning alongside the other cards and the question that brought them together.

Golden Dawn correspondence

Root of Earth; no decan. This is the attribution in Book T.

Sources

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. These notes are original interpretations of the Waite–Smith imagery, informed by that text.