Tarot card

Ace of Pentacles

Ace of Pentacles: material opportunity appearing as a concrete beginning. The card joins the earth nature of Pentacles to its place in the numbered sequence.

2 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 without a cited source · Ace of Pentacles in full

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The oldest attribution here is Suit and element Earth, first attested 1888 CE.

Suit and element

  • Earth

    Traditional
    Who says so
    No school has been identified
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet checked

    Pentacles express the powers of Earth: material conditions, labour, resources, embodiment and practical consequence.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Titles and descriptions of the four suits, pp. 3–23

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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Sephirah and number

  • Kether

    Traditional
    Who says so
    No school has been identified
    Earliest verified attestation
    1888 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet checked

    The Aces are the roots of their elements, force before it has entered a particular situation. Book T places all four in Kether, where Spirit first moves through the elemental scales.

    Evidence

    1. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (primarily); Harriet Felkin (later material), Book T, c. 1888 — Of the Aces, pp. 9–10

      · Mathers, c. 1888 (Golden Dawn internal)

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