Queen of Pentacles: tarot card meaning

In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Queen of Pentacles upright means: Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty. Reversed: Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.

The picture

“The face suggests that of a dark woman, whose qualities might be summed up in the idea of greatness of soul; she has also the serious cast of intelligence; she contemplates her symbol and may see worlds therein.” A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910

Upright

Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.

Waite's additional meanings: Dark woman; presents from a rich relative; rich and happy marriage for a young man.

Reversed

Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.

Waite's additional meanings, reversed: An illness.

In one line

Opulence, generosity and security. (Esbat's own summary of Waite's meaning and picture.)

Where it sits in the deck

The Queen of Pentacles is the thirteenth card of the suit of Pentacles, one of the 56 Minor Arcana. The other Queens: Queen of Wands, Queen of Cups, Queen 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 Queen 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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