Four of Pentacles
Four of Pentacles
Number 4 Earth
A pentacles card: money, body, and the ordinary business of living.
Upright
holding onsecuritycontrolsaving
Holding what you have, tightly. The Four of Pentacles is security and its cost: savings, caution, a grip that keeps you safe and keeps everything else out. The figure has a coin under each foot, one in his hands and one on his head. He cannot move.
Reversed
letting gogenerosityloosening the grip
The grip loosens. Reversed, this is generosity, spending on something worth it, or simply the ability to stop counting for an afternoon. Occasionally it is the opposite: control lost, money going out faster than it should.
What is in the picture
A man on a stool clutching one coin, one balanced on his crown, one under each foot, the town behind him. He is holding four coins and nothing else.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: you are holding on hard. It is keeping you safe and keeping you still.
Reversed: loosening the grip. It is safer than it feels.
Love and relationships
Upright: holding on to someone tightly enough that they cannot move.
Reversed: giving more freely. It will not cost you what you fear.
Work and direction
Upright: staying put for the security. A legitimate choice; count the cost too.
Reversed: ready to risk something for a better position.
Money and security
Upright: saving hard. Good, up to the point where it stops being a life.
Reversed: spend some of it on something that is not an emergency.
Me, honestly
Upright: the scarcity feeling may be older than your actual circumstances.
Reversed: you have enough to be generous with. Try it once.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: the cautious option, honestly costed.
Reversed: yes: the one that requires you to let go of something.
If this card leads
Give one thing away and see whether the fear was right.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as maybe. Reversed, yes.
“I can hold this more loosely.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
