Page of Pentacles: tarot card meaning

In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Page of Pentacles upright means: Application, study, scholarship, reflection; another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management. Reversed: Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.

The picture

“A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him.” A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910

Upright

Application, study, scholarship, reflection; another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management.

Waite's additional meanings: A dark youth; a young officer or soldier; a child.

Reversed

Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.

Waite's additional meanings, reversed: Sometimes degradation and sometimes pillage.

In one line

Study and scholarship, and news on its way. (Esbat's own summary of Waite's meaning and picture.)

Where it sits in the deck

The Page of Pentacles is the eleventh card of the suit of Pentacles, one of the 56 Minor Arcana. The other Pages: Page of Wands, Page of Cups, Page of Swords.

In Esbat

Esbat deals a card of the day, face down until you turn it, and holds all 78 cards in the 1910 pictures with Waite's meanings, upright and reversed. The Page of Pentacles can be shared as a picture. All 78 tarot card meanings.

Sources

Meanings and picture descriptions: A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1910), public domain, checked against the Wikisource transcription. Picture: Pamela Colman Smith, 1910, public domain. Like the app, this page records what the book says; it does not promise outcomes.

Last updated October 25, 2026.

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