What is King of Pentacles advising?

Prosperity, security, sound business judgement. Abundance that is stable rather than lucky.

Provide, invest, build. The card is entirely comfortable with wealth and does not attach a warning to it, which distinguishes it from most of the deck and from most commentary on the deck.

In an advice position it says enjoy what you have without apologising for it, and then use it. Taurus is not ascetic and this card sees no virtue in an unspent fortune.

Greed, materialism, wealth as identity. Controlling through money.

The control reading is the sharpest and is worth stating plainly: money used to determine what other people do, inside a family or a business, is a real dynamic and one this card describes better than any other.

Also read for a business overextended past what it can hold, which is the same appetite pointed at growth rather than at people.

Upright: prosperity, security, business acumen, provision, stewardship

Reversed: greed, materialism, controlling, overextension

• What am I responsible for providing, and am I providing it?
• What is my money for?