Ace of Pentacles
Pentacles
How This Card Is Derived
Papus gives no separate description of this card. It is derived from his system: Pentacles is He final (ה), the realizing principle, the term that makes fact, acting in Assiah, the material world; the number 1 is Yod of the first series, the pure active origin of the suit. The meaning below is that combination read out — the realizing principle, the term that makes fact taken at its 1st term — not a quotation from him.
Upright
The active origin of the material world: the means given. Papus's Yod starts things, and in Assiah what starts is a resource — capital, a tool, an opening with a value attached to it. The Ace is the one card in the suit where matter is pure potential, and it is exact that potential in the material world takes the form of something you can hold. It has no direction of its own; it becomes whatever it is put into.
Reversed
The means given and not used — the resource held, admired, kept intact. Or an opening whose price was never read, which the rest of the suit will duly collect on.
Correspondences
- Suit
- Pentacles — He final (ה), Assiah, the material world
- Suit principle
- the realizing principle, the term that makes fact
- Number
- 1 — Yod of the first series
- Numeric role
- the pure active origin of the suit
In a Spread
At the commencement, the matter begins with something concrete arriving. In opposition, a resource with conditions attached to it. At equilibrium the situation rests on a single material fact. As the result: means, not outcome — the rest of the suit decides what is done with them.