MINOR ARCANA

Six of Pentacles Tarot Meanings

When it comes to the Six of Pentacles, it can help to keep its previous card, the Five of Pentacles in mind. We’ve passed through this period of worry and deep concern, to reach a place of generosity, charity and equilibrium. We’ve risen out of those gloomy depths and now we finally have a lifeline to help us pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and continue on our way.

The Six of Pentacles is an achievement in the realm of earth, so it often refers to material world achievements and wins. Usually, these have been a long time coming or at least it feels that way. We can finally relax a little and the stress starts to melt away as our optimistic perspective takes the place of our previously pessimistic one.

Six of Pentacles Upright Meanings

In the upright position, the Six of Pentacles aims to restore balance, our inner and outer worlds are finally back in alignment and we have more control over what is happening to us. Some of the key meanings of the Six of Pentacles are:

Charity
Perspective
Equilibrium
Generosity
Reciprocation

With the Six of Pentacles, we finally have the support we needed in the Five of Pentacles, whether that is from an external source or we’ve found it in ourselves, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that we have now balanced how we see our situation and the situation at hand, helping to take the pressure off and relieve the stress.

Six of Pentacles Reversed Meanings

In the reversed position, the Six of Pentacles can often see us carrying those negativities from the Five of Pentacles into the next stage on our journey. Some of the main reversed meanings of the Six of Pentacles are:

Abuse
Subservience
Inequality
Bad investment
Small print

It may seem like the Six of Pentacles reversed brings more doom and gloom, but it’s simply a word of caution rather than an omen. It asks us to stay on our toes and make sure we are giving our present circumstances our full attention in order to avoid trip hazards.

Reading Six of Pentacles in a Tarot Spread

The Six of Pentacles is always a card I find a little tricky to interpret because it carries a little bit of that heaviness from the Five of Pentacles, but it is striving to lighten things up and break through the gloom. It’s more of a lifeline than a complete solution or saviour. It shows us that we have the opportunity to break free and really start to turn our look around, but you may need to look at the other cards around it to really unfold what the meat of it is.

When it appears in a spread, see it as cautious optimism, we’ve come through the other side of the darkness, but we’re not out of the woods yet. There are still things to do and we need to maintain our focus.

Six of Pentacles as An Invitation

If the Six of Pentacles shows up as an invitation, it can be asking us to really sit in this balanced energy, to take a deep breath and regroup.

For Six of Pentacles, this invitation could be the following:

An invitation to accept charity when it is offered, there is no shame in accepting help when you need it most
An invitation to read all the small print before making any big commitments
An invitation to share your good fortune with others in order to attract more to yourself
An invitation to give as good as you get, whether that’s positive or negative energy

Six of Pentacles as Sage Advice

The Six of Pentacles can appear as advice when we have just come out of a heavy period of our journey. It can often be a helping hand that leads us back on the right path.

Some advice Six of Pentacles may offer is:

We don’t have to suffer alone, if you have the opportunity for external help or support, take it without hesitation
Use this time to look back at how far you’ve come, what you’ve done to clamber your way to where you are right now and be proud of all the hard work you’ve accomplished
Find confidence in your current position, you deserve to be where you are and it’s important to not let anyone make you feel otherwise

Six of Pentacles as a Lesson

If there are lessons to be learned from the Six of Pentacles they will most likely be lessons around give and take, creating equilibrium and fighting for what you know you deserve.

Some lessons that Six of Pentacles may offer you are:

A lesson in true inequality and recognising your privilege
A lesson in aligning your external world with your internal one to achieve positive results
A lesson in the joy and fulfilment in generosity and giving back
A lesson in accepting help in spite of your ego telling you not to

Six of Pentacles as a Redirection

When the Six of Pentacles comes up as a redirection it may be that you need to practice more gratitude for what you have in the present, instead of trying to constantly achieve the next thing on your list.

As a redirection, Six of Pentacles could symbolise a need to:

Find a new avenue of support, whether that be getting a loan, asking for help or support from those closest to you or even signing up for a new club or hobby to help with your wellbeing
Change your perspective and start to see your privilege instead of playing the victim
Be more careful when making big commitments instead of going in blindly

Pentacles

The Pentacles are the minor arcana Tarot suit that looks at our finances, health, home, relationships and career. It is a focus on our material world, all the things we can see, hear, touch, smell and taste.

The Pentacles are very active and physical. They require us to move, to instigate and take responsibility. They differ from the Wands which are also an active energy, because the Pentacles are rooted in practicality whereas the Wands are purely impulse.

Earth

All four of the minor arcana Tarot suits have an elemental energy. The Pentacles is the energy of earth. This is because the Pentacles represent grounded energy. It is all about the real external world, the things we can interact with and our physical bodies.

The Pentacles are a very present energy, another reason why we associate them with the grounded energy of earth. When they come up in our readings we are asked to look at things how they are and not how we want them to be in an ideal world.

Sixes

The sixes in the world of numerology are primarily about success, achievement and victory. When we apply this to the world of the Pentacles, we see these things within the material and external world.

An example of a Six of Pentacles moment may be receiving good karma after giving back to your community. It can also be something as simple as a job promotion, an engagement, reaching a PB in the gym or even landing that dream home.