Pentacles: definition

Coins are the suit of tarot associated with the material world, resources, the body, concrete work and stability. They speak of the tangible reality of life.

In the minor arcana they point to matter, economy, security, goods, rootedness and the relationship with the concrete: all that gives weight and solidity to existence.

They do not speak only of money in a narrow sense: also of worth, embodiment, production, fecundity and the relationship with the real means a person has.

They are traditionally associated with the element earth, which reinforces their link with the stable, the slow, what is built and preserved, as opposed to the speed of fire or the fluidity of water.

In a structured reading, coins specify what touches the material conditions of existence, concrete supports and the relationship with tangible reality and security.

Like any suit, they unfold a progression, from the ace —seed of a resource— to the figures, which embody different ways of managing, multiplying or hoarding the material; their excess speaks of attachment, their lack of precariousness.

In a spread with many coins it is worth asking about the person's relationship with the material: rootedness and solidity, or on the contrary attachment, insecurity or stagnation before the concrete.

When several coins gather in a spread, the reading leans toward the material and the concrete: it is worth asking whether the person feels grounded and secure or held back by attachment or lack.