Four 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 4 is He final of the first series, and Yod of the second, realization — and the pivot that begins the next movement. The meaning below is that combination read out — the realizing principle, the term that makes fact taken at its 4th term — not a quotation from him.
Upright
The pivot. Matter realized becomes matter held — possession, and Papus's fourth term is honest that this is an achievement before it is a fault. Four coins, all accounted for, none of them moving. This is the point at which resources stop circulating and become a position. It fixes what the first three terms produced, and being a pivot, everything the second series does begins from it.
Reversed
The grip loosened, deliberately or by force — reversed can be generosity or it can be loss, and the surrounding cards decide. Or holding taken so far that the holder is now held, which is the reading five will develop.
Correspondences
- Suit
- Pentacles — He final (ה), Assiah, the material world
- Suit principle
- the realizing principle, the term that makes fact
- Number
- 4 — He final of the first series, and Yod of the second
- Numeric role
- realization — and the pivot that begins the next movement
In a Spread
At the commencement, the matter begins from an established material position. In opposition, someone's unwillingness to let a resource move. At equilibrium the situation is secure and completely static. As the result: the thing is kept — and Papus's pivot means kept in a way that starts something else.