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The card of the Six of Pentacles portrays Daedalus on his knees in homage, hands clasped in a gesture of supplication. Seated before him on a golden throne, there is King Minos of Crete - a mature man with black hair and beard and a swarthy complexion, robed in regal purple and wearing a golden crown. In his hands the king holds six golden pentacles, offering them to Daedalus in a promise of future patronage. Behind the kneeling craftsman and the enthroned king can be seen the walls of Minos palace, decorated with painted friezes ofbull-dancers and borders of grape-laden vines.

Minor Arcana ~ The Six of Pentacles

The Six of Pentacles is a harmonious card, reflecting the renewal of faith which here accompanies Daedalus’ successful flight to Crete and his reward of the powerful and wealthy King Minos’ patronage. After the catastrophe of the Five of Pentacles, with its implications of loss not only of possessions but of trust in life and one’s own capabilities, the Six of Pentacles promises a kind of restoration through the generosity or charity of others. The atmosphere of this card is not one of reward for hard work, but rather of benevolence. One can sometimes count on the bounty of life, which is not always unkind and which will ultimately, in some way, recompense the individual for efforts made.

Sometimes this experience of life’s generosity arises from within the individual himself or herself, rather than through the charity of others; one discovers that one can still give without conditions even though one has suffered reversals and losses. The deeper meaning of the Six of Pentacles therefore touches on an important facet of the world of creation in form, because not everything is a result of conscious will or error. Sometimes good luck crosses one’s path, and although one cannot plan for or expect this, nevertheless it often occurs just when our fortunes are at their lowest. Daedalus is not a wholly bad man, although he has committed a great crime. He is an ambivalent man, capable of much good as well as much evil, and life therefore does not judge him in the way in which society- embodied by the angry Athenians - might judge him. He has suffered for his crime by poverty and exile and humiliation, and now a new cycle begins, heralded by one of those strokes of good fortune which display themselves in kindness and generosity - one’s own or another’s.

On a divinatory level, the Six of Pentacles augurs a situation where there is money or substance to be shared, and where the individual will himself or herself be called upon to offer generosity or be the recipient of another’s generosity. Faith in life and in one’s capacities is regained.

I will explain in my readings what each card means, this is a general interpritation taken from the Mythic Tarot Deck

Information Source: Mythic Tarot Deck
[published in 1986 by Juliet Sharman-Burke and Liz Greene and Illustrated by Tricia Newell (not the New Mythic Tarot)]