Six of Pentacles
Six of Pentacles
Number 6 Earth
A pentacles card: money, body, and the ordinary business of living.
Upright
giving and receivinggenerosityfair exchangehelp
Money moving from where there is some to where there is not, with the scales out. The Six of Pentacles is generosity (given or received) and it is deliberately even-handed about which side you are on. Both are fine. Neither is permanent.
Reversed
strings attachedunequal givingdebt
The exchange is not clean. Reversed, this is help with conditions, giving that buys influence, a debt held over someone, or the discomfort of receiving from a person who will remind you.
What is in the picture
A merchant with scales in one hand dropping coins into the hands of two kneeling figures. He is the only one standing, which readers argue about.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: give or receive, freely. Both are allowed.
Reversed: help with strings on it. Read them.
Love and relationships
Upright: a relationship where the giving evens out over time.
Reversed: keeping score. Somebody is.
Work and direction
Upright: mentoring, or being mentored. Take it.
Reversed: a favour that will be called in.
Money and security
Upright: money given or lent well, with clear terms.
Reversed: a loan between people that is damaging the relationship.
Me, honestly
Upright: you can accept help without it meaning anything about you.
Reversed: you give in order to be owed. Worth looking at.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: yes, if the exchange is genuinely even.
Reversed: look at what it quietly obliges you to.
With other cards
With Five of Pentacles
Hardship and help, in that order. The window in the Five is answered by the hand in the Six: the help is there, and the card before it is why you have to ask.
If this card leads
Make the terms explicit, both directions.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as yes. Reversed, maybe.
“I can receive without it costing me standing.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
