Pamela Colman Smith · RWS deck
The Minor Arcana
Six of Pentacles
Tiphereth in Assiah
- Suit
- pentacles
- Rank
- Six
- World
- Assiah
- Station
- Tiphereth
- Verb
- I ground
Tiphereth, identity
Tiphereth is the centre: what identity looks like in this world. The Six is what recognition at the centre intends, and the Ten shows what actually arrives.
Upright
Flowing. How you share what you have shows who you are: exchange that is fair and seen. In the world of action, identity is not what you say about yourself. It is how you weigh, give and receive, with the scales visible to everyone.
Misdirected. Giving that keeps the power, or keeping score.
Reversed
Blocked. No exchange happens, nothing given or received.
Flooded. Giving and receiving without measure, lopsided.
The image
A well-dressed merchant holds a pair of scales in one hand and drops coins into the hand of a kneeling beggar with the other. A second beggar waits beside him, and six coins hang above the scene.
Learn how to read Six of Pentacles in a spread
This page shows you what Six 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.
