Is Six of Pentacles a yes or a no?

This card leans yes. It carries forward movement, and in a straight yes/no draw most readers take it affirmatively.

The Six is giving and receiving, and the power difference between them.

Generosity is real here and so are the scales in the giver's hand. He decides the amount, and he is standing. The card asks who is measuring and on what terms, which is a question most depictions of charity avoid.

Waite's figure is weighing rather than emptying his purse, and that detail is the crux. The generosity is conditional and measured rather than spontaneous, and the card neither condemns that nor pretends it is not happening.

Yes/no readings are the most popular use of tarot and the one it is worst suited to. A seventy-eight card deck built to describe nuance is being asked for one bit of information, and most of what it knows is discarded in the process.

A more useful version of the same draw: read Six of Pentacles as what shape this takes, not whether it happens. Charity, support, resources shared. Give or accept help. Fair exchange.

Notice which side of the transaction you are on, because the card cares about that more than about the amount. Giving and receiving are different experiences of the same event, and the person kneeling has a view of it that the person standing does not.

In an advice position it favours generosity with no ledger kept, and equally the graceful acceptance of help, which is the harder of the two for most people.

Reversed, the lean weakens or inverts. Strings attached. Generosity that buys compliance, or debt that never quite clears.

The first is rarely stated aloud and is usually felt immediately by the recipient. Help that comes with an unspoken expectation is a transaction being described as a gift, and the confusion is what makes it corrosive.

Also read for one-sided giving in either direction, sustained long enough that both parties have stopped noticing it is the arrangement.