Queen of Pentacles

What the card means

Upright

Practical care: the person who notices what is needed before it is asked for. She sits in a garden holding a coin like a child. Her warmth comes out as things done - food, money, a household that works.

Reversed

Tending everyone, with nothing left for yourself. Or money worry that has become the background of a whole life. Sometimes care with nowhere to get away from it.

As a person

A practical, capable and generous woman: makes a home comfortable and well provided for, and cares with deeds rather than words. Feet firmly on the ground. In shadow, money worries and caring for everyone except herself.

Love and relationships

Upright

A relationship where care comes through hands rather than words. Dependability, a home, comfort. Often a woman everything rests on.

Reversed

It all rests on one person and nobody counts that as a contribution. Or care that leaves no room.

Work and business

Upright

Work where practicality and the details of daily life matter. A good time for what improves conditions rather than figures.

Reversed

Carrying the whole team's domestic load. Or worry about income getting in the way of the work.

Money

Upright

Money in hand and in use. A good time for a budget, for the house, for health.

Reversed

Counting every coin and allowing yourself none of it. Or spending it on other people and being left with nothing.

The card's advice

Look after yourself as practically as you look after everyone else - specifically, not in principle. And ask what you need.

As the card of the day

A warm, domestic day. Good for the household, for money and for care. Poor for sacrificing yourself once more.

What is depicted

A queen sits in a flowering garden holding a pentacle in both hands and looking into it; roses around her, a rabbit below. Goats and fruit carved on the throne. She looks at the coin the way people look at something alive.

Zodiac sign and correspondences

Earth that feeds. By zodiac sign, Capricorn (the queens are usually given the cardinal signs); more broadly, all the earth signs: Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.

With other cards

• Queen of Pentacles + The Empress — two kinds of tending: one grows it, one arranges it.
• Queen of Pentacles + King of Pentacles — care and holding together - a household that stands.
• Queen of Pentacles + Ten of Pentacles — it all holds, and there is something to leave.