Pamela Colman Smith · RWS deck
The Minor Arcana
Queen of Pentacles
Neshamah in Assiah
- Suit
- pentacles
- Rank
- Queen
- World
- Assiah
- Soul level
- Neshamah
- Position
- Down 2
Neshamah, breath and understanding
Neshamah is the breath of life and the understanding it gives. Queens are home in Briah, work down into Yetzirah and Assiah, and reach up one into Atziluth.
Upright
Flowing. Understanding made into a place where life is sustained: the house as form. The Queen works two worlds down, and her understanding takes shape as a household, a garden, a table that people can sit at.
Misdirected. Keeping the house in order at the cost of the people in it.
Reversed
Blocked. Understanding cannot get into the home or the work, knowing without providing.
Flooded. Provision without discernment, caring for everything and everyone at once.
The image
A queen sits on a throne in a garden bower thick with roses, a coin resting in her lap. A rabbit sits at her feet, and mountains and a stream lie behind. The picture is warm, and entirely practical.
Learn how to read Queen of Pentacles in a spread
This page shows you what Queen of Pentacles means. Knowing how to read it — how it shifts next to the other cards, what the reversal is really telling you, and how to turn a spread into a clear answer — is what the RWS Decoded course and book teach, card by card.
