An empty crossroads on a heath at night, a leaning signpost and poppy heads in the verge.

Pentacles · VI

Six of Pentacles

Lord of Material Success

The face of Six of Pentacles, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Lord of Material Success.

What flows out returns. Give and receive in fair measure.

Upright

Generosity, charity and sharing. Fair exchange of resources.

Reversed

Strings attached, or one-sided giving.

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The spirit work

In the Goetia, Astaroth discovers secrets by day; Andrealphus teaches measure by night. Give something away before the reading.

Where the card sits

Correspondences

DecanMoon in Taurus, 10° to 20°, the second face
Tree of LifeTiphareth in Assiah
Governing angelsNemamiah by day, Yeialel by night
Image of the decanA naked man holding a key.
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Day spiritAstaroth, duke
The seal of Astaroth

Appears as a hurtful angel riding a dragon, a viper in his right hand. Answers of all times, discovers secrets, tells how the spirits fell, teaches the liberal sciences. Goetia 29.

Night spiritAndrealphus, marquis
The seal of Andrealphus

Appears as a peacock with great noises, then a man. Teaches geometry, measure and astronomy; can turn a person into a bird. Goetia 65.

Six of Pentacles in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Notes on sources

The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.