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Minor Arcana · Suit of Pentacles · Number card
Ace · Pentacles
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightA sound beginningSomething tangibleContentment
↓ ReversedWealth misusedA chance missedShaky footing
What it means
↑ Upright
A gift that can be held in the hand: an opening in work or at home that is real rather than promised — a job, a place to live, a skill, firm ground to stand on — and with it the perfect contentment Waite reads here. The counsel is plain: plant it, and give the opening its first ordinary day of effort so that it has somewhere to take root.
↓ Reversed
The same gift held wrongly, which Waite calls "the evil side of wealth": security sought for its own sake, a sound opening spoiled by haste, or plans built on poor information. Before anything grows, check what you have been told and ask what the comfort is for; plenty that does its owner no good is not the prize it seems.
An ace is a gift, and in Pentacles the gift is something solid: a means, a place or a skill that can be built on. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows a hand from a cloud holding up a gold coin engraved with a five-pointed star, above a garden of lilies where a hedge archway opens onto distant mountains. The garden is security; the opening in the hedge makes it a starting point rather than a wall.
Upright
Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold.
Reversed
The evil side of wealth, bad intelligence; also great riches. In any case it shows prosperity, comfortable material conditions, but whether these are of advantage to the possessor will depend on whether the card is reversed or not.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.