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Minor Arcana · Suit of Pentacles · Number card
Four · Pentacles
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightHolding onSecurityWhat is yours
↓ ReversedDelayOppositionA slipping hold
What it means
↑ Upright
Arms wrapped around one coin, a second balanced on the crown, two pinned under the feet: what is yours, kept safe. The meaning is the surety of possessions — a gift, a legacy, an inheritance — and keeping hold of what you have is often wise. Ask only whether the grip still protects, or has begun to stop anything new from reaching your hands.
↓ Reversed
Things held in suspense: a matter delayed, someone opposing, or an agreement stuck because nobody wants to be first to open their hands. Fear of losing ground can freeze everything around it. Find one small thing you can release without real risk, and see what begins to move once you have.
Four brings stability, and in Pentacles stability means possession: money, property or position held securely. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows a crowned man seated with a city at his back, clutching one pentacle to his chest, with another resting on his crown and one under each foot. Head, heart and footing are all given over to keeping what he has; the city behind him is commonly read as the company he has stepped away from to guard it.
Upright
The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gift, legacy, inheritance.
Reversed
Suspense, delay, opposition
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.