What does King of Pentacles mean as someone's feelings?

A generous, stable, providing partner. Reliable, and possibly unromantic.

He expresses commitment through security: the household that works, the bills that are handled, the sense that nothing is going to collapse. People raised without that tend to value it enormously and people raised with it tend not to notice it at all.

Reversed, a relationship where money is the power. That is not always deliberate and it does not require anybody to be cruel; an income disparity with no conversation attached to it produces it on its own.

As somebody's feelings, he reads as settled, serious and protective. Whatever is felt has been decided rather than discovered, and it will show up as provision rather than as expression.

A card drawn to represent another person's feelings does not read their mind. What it can do is describe the dynamic as it reaches you: what is being expressed, what the shape of the connection is from where you sit.

That is a real answer and a smaller one than the question usually wants. Readers who promise more than that are not being straight with you.

A better question with the same card: what is this connection actually like, and what do I need from it?

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?