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Waite–Smith, Pentacles

Page of Pentacles

A standing figure raises a pentacle and looks intently at it, with flowers, trees and distant hills around.
Enlarge ↗Source scan, PDF p. 274 ↗

What you can see

A standing figure raises a pentacle and looks intently at it, with flowers, trees and distant hills around.

What Waite says

Waite reads application, scholarship and reflection, with messages as another possibility. The figure’s absorption in the emblem gives the account a different pace from the active Swords page.

Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 260 ↗

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.