Dodal, linked reproduction
Six de Deniers
Jean Dodal’s Marseille pack · Lyon, 1701–1715.
Read the BnF catalogue record ↗How does plenty circulate?
Compare an ordered distribution of disks with the visible act of giving.
Start with the pictures
Six of Pentacles
Pamela Colman Smith · 1922 printing, p. 271
Open the source scan page ↗Notice what changes
Dodal
Six de Deniers
Six coins form a balanced arrangement: one at the top, two pairs below it and one at the bottom. Long coloured stems curl around the group.
Smith
Six of Pentacles
A standing figure holds scales and distributes coins toward two kneeling people. Six pentacles appear above the scene.
Harris
Six of Disks · 6
Six pale circular disks surround a bright central design in a regular ring. Long triangular points extend outward behind them.
Open Harris’s painting and reference page ↗Now read the authors
Waite’s explanation
Waite interprets gifts and present prosperity, with the distributor’s success and generosity in view. The pictured exchange also lets a reader inspect the differing positions of those giving and receiving.
Crowley’s explanation
Crowley names Success and describes Tiphareth and the Moon in Taurus as a harmonious material condition. He also says that the condition is transient, rather than a permanent possession.
Is balance shown as equal placement, measured giving or a flow that may change?
Write one thing you can point to in the image, one interpretation from a named author, and one inference of your own. Keeping the three separate gives you something useful to revisit.
Sources and image credits
The Dodal cards are one early-eighteenth-century Marseille witness. The black-and-white Smith plates come from the 1922 Rider reprint, whose title verso lists first publication in 1910. Colours in later editions can differ.
Foolmade supplies the linked Dodal reproductions. Its surrounding commentary is not the basis for our historical claims. These images are linked externally; the Smith illustration reuses the public-domain source scan with its full page context.
Harris’s paintings are linked on their host’s reference pages. Crowley’s text is the separately identified Thelemagick transcription of The Book of Thoth. Neither a modern reproduction nor a transcription replaces examination of the original artwork or edition.