Tarot Cards About Money
The following article, Tarot Cards About Money, is an excerpt from the Tarot For Money book by Kat Elmwood.
Tarot For Money by Kat Elmwood
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When looking at money matters with tarot, there are several cards that stand out as being especially relevant to financial matters.
Some tarot practitioners will deliberately extract these cards from a deck and use them in specialized spreads, especially for binary choice spreads like Yes No decision making. Some readers will simply be on the lookout for these particular money cards.
The following is a selection of tarot cards that are traditionally associated with the financial realms. These meanings are based on the traditional interpretations of the cards. Through your intuitive use of tarot, you may devise your own specialist interpretations of the best cards for exploring your personal relationship with money.
If you are interested in entire decks about wealth matters, you might like my list of the Best Tarot and Oracle Decks For Money.
Card Groupings
Major Arcana
Major Arcana cards are associated with the realms of fate, destiny, all those defining hallmarks of life. When Major cards appear in a financial spread, you can be guided to thinking that you are dealing with matters of significance and fateful topics, the big picture rather than the details of day-to-day life. Think here of those huge key money moments like careers, purchasing homes and other major investments, marriages, bankruptcy, and the like.
Minor Arcana
Minor Arcana cards are all about the details. They are the moments of everyday life and they are also the small nuances that color of the events that the Major cards typically speak to. Minor cards in a spread about money are asking you to look at details rather than big picture analysis. Consider these small financial matters such as shopping, bills, household budgets, bank accounts, and other daily details.
The Suit of Pentacles
It’s a good reason that the Pentacles suit is called sometimes the suit of Coins. Pentacles are all about money and the material realm, the earthly aspects of tangible resources. Of course, this isn’t limited to actual cash itself, but can also be about things that physical money can buy, such as our housing, food, general merchandise, utilities, and services.
Pentacles can also can be related to our work from a financial perspective. When Pentacles cards show up in a reading associated with wealth and finances, you can be assured that you are well connected to your deck and getting a thoroughly aligned reading.
Look for areas in your spread where other cards are paired with Pentacles. For example, The Wheel of Fortune appearing close to a Pentacle card (especially those cards listed below) shows a turn in financial fortunes. Or a Fool card paired with strong Pentacle cards may prompt you to look at your financial naivety.
How are Pentacles showing up with other Minor suits? A Pentacles and Swords combo might suggest decisive and powerful actions towards money matters. Pentacles paired with Cups cards are asking you to think about your relationship with money. Pentacles cards appearing alongside cards of Wands may address how you are taking action to manifest money into your life.
Court Cards
When a Court card appears in your financial spreads, consider them as guiding figures. This is especially true of the Kings and Queens who are there to remind us of each suit’s qualities in its most mature and powerful forms.
If a Page card turns up, consider this an enthusiastic prompt forward, but remember to temper this enthusiasm with the learning that can only come through experience.
If you turn up a Knight, this figure is prompting you into action but beware again of immaturity that may lead to rash and impulsive decisions, acting for the sake of acting alone.
Individual Cards
Ace of Pentacles
The Ace of Pentacles is the essential spirit of wealth and financial matters. Like all Ace cards, the Ace of Pentacles is about the beginnings, the seeds, not the culminations. It might indicate your raw enthusiasm about money, even if you don’t as yet have the actual means to make any or improve your circumstances. The Ace of Pentacles may refer to your aspirations about money or your capacity to make money. This Ace might reference a new financial plan that’s yet to be in full swing, or a new job that promises lucrative awards.
Ten of Pentacles
The Ten of Pentacles is associated with affluence, representing inherited or earned wealth through astute investments and diligent effort. It is a symbol of legacy and estate. This card embodies notions of a secure family, ensuring the prosperity of all members.
Nine of Pentacles
The Nine of Pentacles is a card of abundance, enjoying luxuries and a life of opulence. This Nine also speaks to self-sufficiency and financial independence. It’s a card all about spending freely and without guilt, and joyfully releasing your money blocks.
Empress
The Empress is the ultimate abundance card. The Empress is all about growth, fertility, and reaping rewards. She stands for these states not so much from the earthly realms of actual cash, but the inner and emotional rewards that such wealth and abundance can bring to you, that you may share generously with others.
Four of Pentacles
The Four of Pentacles portrays a more conservative form of wealth, reflecting a frugal or security-minded approach to resources. In a shadow sense, this card might speak of poverty or another form of financial lack.
Six of Pentacles
The Six of Pentacles is often associated with charitable acts. It may symbolize the spirit of someone with the means to be generous.
King of Pentacles
The King of Pentacles is the maturation of financial investments in a very materialistic sense. He represents diligence, responsibility, and significant achievements. This King is a rational investor and hard worker. He’s reached the pinnacle of his material realm, as a successful, generous and dependable protector and provider.
Queen of Pentacles
The Queen of Pentacles is another mature and stable provider. She has reached financial and materialistic summits and is at the height of her talents. The Queen reaps the rewards all her hard work and uses her rewards to nurture others. In this sense, the Queen of Pentacles is closely aligned to the energies of the Empress card. The differences are subtle. The abundance of the Empress card is rooted in the feminine energy of emotion and spiritual intuition. This can absolutely connect to material senses, but it does so from an immaterial perspective. The Queen of Pentacles steps more towards masculine energy in that she symbolizes the earthly practicality of reaching pinnacles of abundance through practical work and other directly earthly matters.
Nine of Cups
The Nine of Cups represents fulfilled desires and indulgence, depicting a life without worry. It is often referred to as the “Wish Card.” As this is a Cups card, in a financial reading, we are usually prompted to consider how our financial pursuits are aligning with our spiritual and emotional desires. Will money grant your truest wishes?
Six of Wands
Six of Wands is a card about success and reward and recognition. When we’re talking about money, it’s all about a financial gain in any format it comes. The Six of Wands might speak of promotion in work leading to new levels of earnings, or some other lucrative opportunity, and the social recognition that comes with that.
