Pentacles · Minor Arcana
A person in the guise of a merchant weighs money in a pair of scales and distributes it to the needy and distressed.
A merchant weighs pentacles in one hand and drops them into the cupped palms of kneeling figures with the other. The scale in his hand is level. This is the old law of circulation — what flows is what lives.
Element
Earth
Numerology
6— love, responsibility, balance restored, nurture
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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A person in the guise of a merchant weighs money in a pair of scales and distributes it to the needy and distressed. It is a testimony to his own success in life, as well as to his goodness of heart.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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