Ace of Pentacles

UPRIGHT

A hand from a cloud offers a single pentacle above a garden gate, a path of lilies leading through. The Ace of Pentacles is the seed of material good — a new opportunity in money, work, body, or home, offered before any of it has been earned. The card honors the practical beginning that asks only to be accepted and tended.

REVERSED

Reversed, the Ace of Pentacles is the gift fumbled or the gate refused. The card can name an opportunity declined out of fear, a financial beginning made on weak ground, or a healthy chance entered into with the wrong expectations. The pentacle is still there; the question is whether the querent will reach for it.

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