Six of Pentacles: tarot meaning, upright and reversed

A standing figure distributes coins with scales in hand between two kneeling people.

Upright

exchange · generosity

Consider both the giving and receiving sides of an unequal exchange.

Reversed

conditional help · imbalance

Support may carry an unspoken cost or flow in only one direction.

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

Moon in Taurus, 10–20 degrees. 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.