The Four Pentacles card is part of the Minor Arcana group, and therefore will bring you messages about your actions and results. The Four of pentacles in general represents the need to overcome a fear of taking action to achieve its goals. That is, the card alerts you not to be stagnant where you are.
So, when this card appears during a tarot reading, it can mean excessive attachment caused by fear of what is unsafe. This card, of course, has several possibilities for reading from the main question and the context in which it is drawn from the deck.
However, the Four Pentacles, like the other Minor Arcana, is a card to reflect on your actions in relation to yourself and the others around you. Not necessarily the meaning of the Four Pentacles will be a reprimand or a warning that your attitude needs to change, so let’s understand more about this card.
Visual description and the Symbology of the Four of pentacles
The Four Pentacles in general symbolises fear about a loss in our lives. The Pentacles suit, as we said in a previous article, represents an agreement between two desires, a relationship with other people and other aspects of our life.
The card visually depicts a man sitting, away from a city and other people. He holds a pentagram, and has three more pentagrams, two under his feet and one over his head. In total, four pentagrams.
The seated man is in a protective position in relation to the Four Pentacles, as if he is afraid of losing them. He holds tightly what he has in his hands, but he has his back to the city, the rest of the people, stuck to that moment. The man symbolizes stagnation by attachment or fear, and the inability to take action, he remains seated.
Then, the Four Pentacles in general will emerge as a warning to the excess pride and ambition that ends up holding someone stuck to something, or stagnating in a position for fear of losing what they have already achieved. Thus, this person may end up acting arrogant, narcissistic or selfish towards others.
Keywords of the Four Pentacles
To better understand the interpretations related to the Four Pentacles, we will list the keywords related to it.
Keywords: present, inheritance, fear, greed, loneliness, stagnation, excessive ambition.
Inverted keywords: Loss, intrigue, betrayal, setbacks.
The keywords related to the Four Pentacles card are related to energies of action and relationship with oneself and with others, and the way this materializes in your personal achievements and goals. Whether in the material field or in relation to financial aspects.
We will then understand the Four Pentacles in different specific contexts.
Four Pentacles meaning
As we have already said, when the Four Pentacles appears in a Tarot reading, it will always be related to the fruits of some action or effort. Usually, something positive or rewarding.
So, let’s understand how the meanings of this card can be interpreted in each context.
Love and Relationships
Regarding the context of love and relationships, the Four Pentacles can be seen as a negative card. In the case of a single person, it can mean a fear of change that keeps them stagnant, preventing them from finding love. It may also be the case with past relationships that hold you back, preventing new loves from arising.
In the case of a person who is already in a relationship, the Four Pentacles may mean that there is some grudge or disagreement within the relationship. Perhaps because of excessive control and jealousy of one or both, creating a negative energy. It is necessary to reflect to let go of these feelings and let go.
Money and Work
The Four Pentacles card in the professional context indicates a stable situation, indicating good results ahead. It can bring the message that you are working hard and dedicating enough and it will be recognized.
For those looking for a job, the message is not to give up and let the obstacles stagnate. Keep striving because better opportunities will come.
Regarding money, Four Pentacles emphasizes that you must go after your financial goals, but without allowing greed and selfishness to take over your actions, preventing your evolution.
Health and Spirituality
In relation to health, the card can send a message against the stubbornness in following recommendations of doctors and health treatments. In addition, the person may be inflicting too much tension, causing pain and muscle and spine problems.
Therefore, the Four Pentacles is an alert for greater relaxation and relaxation, detaching from the tension and problems in which the person insists on concentrating, remaining stagnant in a self-critical position detrimental to his health.
For Spirituality, the face of Four Pentacles indicates the need to adapt our postures and let things flow more freely, naturally. There is a positive tendency and spiritual evolution for those who manage to get out of this inflexible state.
Meaning of the Four of Pentacles inverted
The meaning of the card, however, can be read differently when it appears inverted vertically. We will understand their meanings in the same contexts mentioned above.
Love and Relationships
The inverted Four Pentacles shows that there is stinginess in your relationship, whether on your part or someone else’s. Relationships do not prosper because of this behavior, which locks you in a comfortable but negative situation.
Money and Work
This card may indicate that there is too much attachment to money, material things and what has been achieved through work.
Health and Spirituality
The inverted Four Pentacles will generally signal a spiritual need to relax control and avoid obsession. If this attitude does not change, the card warns of a pattern of deviation in character, stinginess and avarice. There is a spiritual imbalance and difficulty in development.
On the health side, it indicates an obsession with the body and the presence of a strong fear of death, clinging to the material side of life. The Four Pentacles can be related to problems caused by stiffness: arthritis, arthrosis.
Four of Pentacles Yes or No
When the Four Pentacles is present in a tarot reading that can result in simple Yes or No answers, the answer will be a Yes. In this case, it will be positive if you keep things as they are, at least for the moment.
Combinations of Four of Pentacles
Four Pentacles is related to the results of their actions in different fields of life. Therefore, your combinations with other tarot cards can indicate how these results will come to you or how you should direct your energies to achieve good fruits.
Four of Pentacles and The Fool
The combination of the Four Pentacles and the card The Fool can be interpreted as a warning regarding risky attitudes towards work, or in the personal field. Avoid dangerous steps.
Three of Pentacles and Justice
The Justice card represents a search for the resolution of pending situations, for the correct and the truth. Together with Four Pentacles, it signals a good organization and rationality in relations with other people and in the search for goals, personal or professional.
Four of Pentacles and Hermit
The Hermit’s card somewhat symoolizes isolation or maturity. When together with Four Pentacles, it brings a message of reflection on whether their actions are transmitting selfishness, or that there is excessive prudence in their decisions.
Four of Pentacles and Emperor
The Emperor’s card can symbolize control, the will being exercised. Thus, together with the Four Pentacles card, one can have the message that there is an excess of control of one person over the other, or an excess of rigor in their actions.
So one must be attentive so that he has more patient and loving attitudes, avoiding being a selfish person in his relationships.
Four de Pentacles – Element, Astrology and other associations
- Element earth
- Planet: Sun
- Astrological Sign: Capricorn
- Important dates: Winter
- Yes / No: Yes
Four Pentacles as type of relationship
Four Pentacles influences people born under its influence to have a personality focused on stability, the acquisition of material goods and appreciation for social status.
This personality needs to be refined so as not to tend to avarice, extreme materialism and the need for social isolation.
Four of Pentacles as feelings
In general there is a need to establish sentimental limits, and these are unlikely to be overcome effortlessly. The exchange of feelings can be diminished if there is no intention to do so.
General questions about the Four Pentacles
What does the Four Pentacles mean in the tarot?
The Four Pentacles card signifies the need for stability, but it also serves as a warning to excessive pride and ambition. The card represents someone who, out of fear, remains stagnant or clinging to their material possessions or achieved goals.
What does the Four Pentacles card inverted in the tarot mean?
Conversely, the Four Pentacles means someone who has lost control of his ambition and avarice. Or that you may be isolating yourself too much, letting fear dominate your actions.
How does he / she feel about me Four Pentacles?
The Four Pentacles signals that there may be excessive attachment or jealousy, or that there is an imbalance in feeling between the parties.
What does Four Pentacles mean in the love tarot?
The Four Pentacles tarot card means that within a relationship, actions need to be rethought in order to get out of stagnation. There is a need for a more flexible posture within love relationships