Pentacles · minor arcana · Earth
The Knight of Pentacles tarot card meaning: upright, reliability, routine and steady progress; reversed, stagnation, stubbornness or boredom from too much routine. It is the knight of the Pentacles court.
Waite, Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911; Golden Dawn, Book T.
Reliability, routine and steady progress. The Knight is the slowest of the knights and the most dependable.
The Knight of Pentacles is hard work and reliability: patient, methodical and committed to the task. He moves slowly but never stops, and finishes what others abandon.
Stagnation, stubbornness or boredom from too much routine.
Reversed, steadiness turns to stagnation: boredom, laziness or being stuck in a rut. Routine can harden into a rut nobody wants to break.
18 pages · printable
Every retrograde, eclipse, new and full moon of 2027 to the minute, already converted to your city. A month to a page, ready to print.
Primary source
“Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude—all on the normal and external plane.”
“inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness.”
The Knight of Pentacles sits where the Knights row crosses the Pentacles column.
How this card is built
Golden Dawn correspondences
Mostly Virgo. The Knight of Pentacles is the mounted figure Book T (1888) calls the King of Pentacles, the “Lord of the Wide and Fertile Land”, and its stretch of the zodiac runs from 20° Leo to 20° Virgo. In 2026 the Sun crosses that stretch from Aug 12 to Sep 12, (UTC).
| Book T title | Lord of the Wide and Fertile Land Book T’s King of Pentacles |
|---|---|
| Zodiac span | 20° Leo – 20° Virgo 30°, two thirds in Virgo |
| Sun in this stretch, 2026 | Aug 12 – Sep 12, 2026 UTC |
| Decans inside it | Seven of Wands Mars in Leo, 20°–30° Eight of Pentacles Sun in Virgo, 0°–10° Nine of Pentacles Venus in Virgo, 10°–20° |
| Element | Fiery 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 Knight of Pentacles is drawn 9 times against an even share of 4.7, three times reversed — joint 3rd of 78, level with 2 other cards. Not one lands while the Sun crosses its Book T stretch.
Dates in 2026: Feb 21 · Mar 6 · Apr 22 · Apr 28 · Jun 25 · Jun 26 · Aug 2 (reversed) · Sep 13 (reversed) · Nov 20 (reversed)
The image
A knight sits motionless on a heavy black horse in a ploughed field, holding a coin and looking at it steadily.
Upright, a loyal, dependable partner. Reversed, a relationship that has become dull.
They feel steady, loyal affection and want to prove themselves.
Methodical work, patience and seeing long projects through.
Yes — slowly. 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 Knights 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
Keep going step by step; consistency wins here.
How neighboring cards change the reading of the Knight 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. “Knight of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning: Upright and Reversed.” Accessed October 27, 2026. https://astrohot.com/tarot/cards/knight-of-pentacles/
{{cite web |title=Knight of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning: Upright and Reversed |url=https://astrohot.com/tarot/cards/knight-of-pentacles/ |website=AstroHot |access-date=2026-10-27}}
Free · PDF · 18 pages
Every retrograde, eclipse, new and full moon of 2027 — to the minute, printed in your own time zone.