Minor Arcana · Pentacles

Six of Pentacles

The scale is held by whoever pours.

Upright · Reversed

Keywords: giving and receiving, the measured hand
Upright: Exchange with an inherent imbalance of position. Generous, and worth noticing who is measuring.
Reversed: Generosity with a hook in it; or receiving that cannot be reciprocated and is resented for it.

In a three-card spread

In the Past position: Read as what is still exerting force — not what happened, but the part of it still pushing on the present.
In the Present position: Read as what is currently available, and where you actually stand. The spread usually turns on this card.
In the Future position: Read as tendency: where this leans if nothing changes. A statement about the present phrased as a direction — never a claim about what will happen.

III

Its suit · Its rank

Its suit

Pentacles · Element: Earth

Pentacles govern the material and the body: work, resources, time, whether a thing has actually landed in the world. The slowest of the four suits and the only one that counts in years. Its trouble is mistaking holding for security, or waiting for stagnation.

Its rank

Six

Six is recovery after the Five: giving, crossing, being seen. Not a return to before — going on, carrying the Five's mark.

Six of Pentacles

Upright · Reversed

In a three-card spread

Its suit · Its rank

Pentacles · Element: Earth

Six

The same rank in the other suits

Six of Pentacles

Upright · Reversed

In a three-card spread

Its suit · Its rank

Pentacles · Element: Earth

Six

The same rank in the other suits