Knight of Pentacles

What the card means

Upright

Slow, unglamorous, and the only one who finishes. The horse is standing still - the one motionless knight in the deck: he is not charging, he simply will not leave the road. What he took on will be done.

Reversed

Thoroughness hardened into never moving. Doing the same thing because it is the thing that is done. Sometimes reliability that has become a dullness people leave.

As a person

A dependable, patient, hard-working man: slow, but he finishes and keeps his word. No romantic, but someone to rely on. In shadow, stubbornness, dullness and standing still.

Love and relationships

Upright

Constancy, obligation, a relationship with no surprises and no deceit in it. Slow and meant.

Reversed

Predictable to the point of indifference. Or waiting years for a step that never gets taken.

Work and business

Upright

The routine that will get there. A good time for the long and dull - it will go better now than anything else.

Reversed

Working on inertia. Or a process that stopped making sense and nobody will change.

Money

Upright

Steady income, regular payments, saving a little at a time. Dull, and it works.

Reversed

Money standing still and losing value.

The card's advice

Do a little every day and stop looking for the faster way - there is not one. And check that reliability has not turned into simply not moving.

As the card of the day

An even, unhurried day. Good for routine and for finishing things. Poor for novelty.

What is depicted

An armoured knight sits on a heavy black horse that is standing; a pentacle in his hand, ploughed field ahead. The only rider in the deck going nowhere.

Zodiac sign and correspondences

Earth that moves slowly and arrives. By zodiac sign, Virgo (the knights are usually given the mutable signs); more broadly, all the earth signs: Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.

With other cards

• Knight of Pentacles + Seven of Pentacles — patience and more patience; the crop comes.
• Knight of Pentacles + Eight of Wands — everything is flying and you are walking - and arriving.
• Knight of Pentacles + Knight of Wands — the fast one and the slow one in one spread: listen to the second.