Pentacles · minor arcana · Earth
The King of Pentacles tarot card meaning: upright, material success, security and generous leadership; reversed, greed, stubbornness or valuing money over people. It is the king of the Pentacles court.
Waite, Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911; Golden Dawn, Book T.
Material success, security and generous leadership. The King has built wealth and uses it responsibly.
The King of Pentacles is abundance and security: business success, discipline and wealth used wisely. He is the established business owner or the person whose security lets others rely on him.
Greed, stubbornness or valuing money over people.
Reversed, wealth turns to greed or stubbornness: materialism or poor financial decisions. Status and possessions can start to matter more than people.
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“Valour, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in these paths.”
“Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.”
The King of Pentacles sits where the Kings row crosses the Pentacles column.
How this card is built
Golden Dawn correspondences
Mostly Taurus. Book T (1888) knows the King of Pentacles as the Prince of Pentacles, the “Prince of the Chariot of Earth”, and gives it the zodiac from 20° Aries to 20° Taurus. In 2026 the Sun crosses that stretch from Apr 9 to May 10, (UTC).
| Book T title | Prince of the Chariot of Earth Book T’s Prince of Pentacles |
|---|---|
| Zodiac span | 20° Aries – 20° Taurus 30°, two thirds in Taurus |
| Sun in this stretch, 2026 | Apr 9 – May 10, 2026 UTC |
| Decans inside it | Four of Wands Venus in Aries, 20°–30° Five of Pentacles Mercury in Taurus, 0°–10° Six of Pentacles Moon in Taurus, 10°–20° |
| Element | Airy part of earth Book T |
| Pentacles by decan | all nine numbered Pentacles, decan by decan |
Book T names its court cards King, Queen, Prince and Princess. This page follows the usual match with the Rider–Waite court — Book T’s mounted King as the Knight, its Prince as the King — which some writers reverse.
Data, not interpretation
Few cards come up more often in 2026: the King of Pentacles is drawn 7 times against an even share of 4.7, once reversed — joint 12th of 78, level with 4 other cards. Not one lands while the Sun crosses its Book T stretch.
Dates in 2026: Jan 1 · Jan 14 · Feb 16 · Feb 28 (reversed) · Mar 4 · May 30 · Jun 12
The image
A king sits on a throne decorated with bulls, his robe covered with grapevines, holding a sceptre and a coin, with a castle behind him.
Upright, a stable, generous and committed partner. Reversed, valuing money over feelings.
They feel serious and want to offer security and commitment.
Business success, financial leadership and long-term stability.
Yes. Upright it counts as a yes in a yes-or-no spread; reversed, it leans toward no, usually as a “not yet” rather than a flat no. Most of the Pentacles give the same answer: 10 of the 14 say yes. All four Kings answer yes.
Health: like every card of Pentacles, it points to the body itself, routine and material conditions. The suit of Pentacles →
If you drew it today
Use your resources to create security for others as well as yourself.
How neighboring cards change the reading of the King of Pentacles →
Statements of fact on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026. How we choose and check sources: editorial policy.
AstroHot. “King of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning: Upright and Reversed.” Accessed October 27, 2026. https://astrohot.com/tarot/cards/king-of-pentacles/
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