FAQ — Queen of Pentacles

The sovereign of the living: Earth understood, at last readable.

This is the Queen's function in every suit of the DAL, and nowhere has the wait been longer: for twelve cards, Earth kept its Book sealed, because matter reveals itself only through the wear of time — an entire life was needed to earn the first page.

Introspection: she no longer watches over the world, she understands it.

Through the same greens, reds and golds; his forward motion is answered by her meditative stillness — the Knight's effort has become, in her, enjoyment of the fruits of the earth.

Both ends of the Earth element: fertility and vigilance — that which gives life remains on guard.

Understanding folds in on itself: comfort that lulls, nature possessed rather than inhabited, an open page that is never turned — or the pentacle finally released for the hand reaching out.

The Water function — receptivity, inner understanding — applied to the element of Earth: understanding matter from within rather than producing or protecting it.

It marks the first of the only two moments when the Book opens in Pentacles — an opening the King will carry further still, all the way to the ground.