Pentacles · Minor Arcana
He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds.
The Knight on the black horse holds his pentacle and does not ride fast. The field is newly ploughed. He is not in a hurry and he is not changing course.
Element
Earth
Numerology
12— action, pursuit, movement, courage in motion
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He rides a slow, enduring, heavy horse, to which his own aspect corresponds. He exhibits his symbol, but does not look therein.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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