King of Pentacles

The King of Pentacles is material mastery. Wealth built and held, a business that runs, a provider whose provision is not in doubt. The final card of the minors, and the most straightforwardly successful figure in the deck.

Prosperity, security, sound business judgement. Abundance that is stable rather than lucky. Provide, invest, build. Enjoy what you have without apologising for it.

Greed, materialism, wealth as identity. Controlling through money. Or a business overextended past what it can hold.

A generous, stable, providing partner. Reliable and possibly unromantic. Reversed, a relationship where money is the power.

A senior, successful position. Business ownership, investment, executive judgement. Excellent for anything commercial.

The deck's strongest wealth card. Established prosperity, sound investment, financial mastery.

Stewardship. Wealth understood as responsibility, and generosity as the point of having it.

Robust constitution. Taurus rules the throat and neck. Reversed, the cost of overindulgence.

He sits on a throne carved with bulls, robed in grapevines, one hand on a pentacle and a castle behind him. The vines grow over him. He has been here long enough for the garden to reach the chair.

Golden Dawn made him airy earth. The grapevine robe and bull throne are Taurean throughout, and the castle behind him is the only completed structure in any of the four king cards.