Complete Tarot Guide: Suit of Coins/Pentacles Card Meanings

influential woman, good luck due to the influence of a woman of high lineage or fame. Protection of women. For a man: a good marriage. In common divination: Relative woman, wealthy or well-known.

Knight of Coins. The Fighter of the Shekel. Number: 90. Letter: Ts. Hieroglyph: Man on horseback walking on foot. In his right hand, a scepter. Before his eyes, a golden shekel shines. Omen: "All possibilities of good luck, but with great struggles. The pursuit of fortune through alternating successes and failures." In common divination: business, commerce. A businessman, a merchant.

Page of Coins. The Slave of the Shekel. Number: 100. Letter: Q. Hieroglyph: A standing man examines a shekel held in his right hand at eye level. At his feet rolls a second shekel. Omen: "Disordered love for wealth, great losses of fortune due to bad combinations on the part of the subject. Great struggles for acquisition. Poverty." In common divination: Saving or avarice, constraint, miser or poor, miserable.

Ace of Coins. Shekel. Number: 20. Letter: C K. Hieroglyph: A shekel crowned with gold and diamonds. Omen: "The subject may obtain high fortune or reputation, honors, if his line of conduct is irreproachable and if he does not harm the power of this talisman with his personal defects." In divination: capital, money, interest, sum.

Two of Coins. The Two Coins. Number: 30. Letter: L. Hieroglyph: Two denarii surrounded by a circle. Omen: "Divided fortune, but possibility of productive associations." Rich and happy marriage. In current divination: purchase, expenses, payment, sharing.

Three of Coins. The Three Coins. Number: 40. Letter: M. Hieroglyph: Three shekels arranged in a triangle. Omen: "Fortune for skillful enterprise, work, intelligence or genius." In common divination: speculation, gain, profit, remuneration.

Four of Coins. The Four Coins. Number: 50. Letter: N. Hieroglyph: Four Sicilies arranged in squares. Omen: "Fortune realized, stable wealth." A certain ease, important acquisitions. In common divination: possessions, goods and inheritance.

Five of Coins. The Five Coins. Number: 60. Letter: X. Hieroglyph: Five shekels, four of which form a square and the fifth is placed in the center. Omen: "A disordered life that will disperse riches, dissipation, prodigality, sometimes ill-gotten gains, money or inheritance diverted from a determination or its recipient, inverted fortune." In most common divinations: business combinations, gain plans or financial affairs, indelicacy.

Six of Coins. The Six Coins. Number: 70. Letter: O. Hieroglyph: Six shekels arranged in two antipodal interlaced triangles (Seal of Solomon). Omen: "Unexpected goods, but danger of losing them through bad advice or bad company." Danger of poverty in old age. In common divination: prodigality, pecuniary disorder, pearl.

Seven of Coins. The Seven Coins. Number: 80. Letters: P F. Hieroglyph: Seven shekels forming a triangle over a square. Omen: "High fortune." Elevation. Material triumph of some kind. In common divination: financial success, money control.

Eight of Coins. The Eight Coins. Number: 90. Letter: T. Hieroglyph: Eight Denarii arranged at the eight corners of a cube. Omen: "Great proposals of goods. Legal proceedings. Inheritances diverted or disputed, in the magistracy or in advocacy. Money poorly spent and unlikely to be returned. Dangers of usury or danger of usury and bad results." In current divination: financial dissipation, fine, tax.

Nine of Coins. The Nine Coins. Number: 100. Letter: Q. Hieroglyph: Nine shekels arranged in three columns. Omen: "Fortune from a mysterious source or from death, from scientific or religious or occult things, from the donation of an elderly person. One must be careful not to let good luck slip through one's fingers." In common divination: saved money, hidden money, obscure or secret affairs, hidden or mysterious interests.

Ten of Coins. The Ten Coins. Number: 200. Letter: R. Hieroglyph: Ten shekels in a circle. Omen: "The acquisition of property through one's own work." If the rest permits, the subject will become richer than his parents. Fortune in danger, on the contrary, if the other arcana are threatening. Loss of income, of profits. In common divination: financial variation. The stock exchange, gambling, lottery.