Waite–Smith, Pentacles
Knight of Pentacles
What you can see
An armoured rider holds a pentacle while seated on a heavy, stationary-looking horse. Parallel field lines run behind them.
What Waite says
Waite describes endurance, utility and responsibility. His reversed account includes stagnation and inertia, making the quality of steadiness something to examine rather than praise automatically.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 258 ↗In the Thoth deck
Waite’s courts are King, Queen, Knight and Page. Thoth has Knight, Queen, Prince and Princess, so a rank does not carry straight across. See both ways to match them.
Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.