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6 of Pentacles, Rider-Waite-Smith
Minor arcana · Pentacles

6 of Pentacles

The Six of Pentacles questions sharing, distribution and measure: what you give, what you receive and the place each person takes in the exchange.

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What the card shows

The Six of Pentacles sets a man upright, a scale in one hand and coins in the other, facing two people stretched towards him. The gaze runs down the coins towards the open hands.

Its light

The sharing happens with an open face: the purse opens the same way for whoever receives, and the pentacle handed over creates neither debt nor dependence.

Its shadow

The scale tips towards the one who holds the cords: you give from above, you count from below, and the hand held out opposite receives a sum you fix alone.

Keywords

sharinggenerosityfairnessresourcesreciprocity

Notes on the symbolism

RWS. Six of Pentacles. The weighing gives the scene its sense: it comes from the iconography of justice, where giving supposes measuring before you hold anything out.

What this card invites you to do

Go back over your last exchange, say aloud what was given, then what came back, and correct the gap at the next service done.

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