Minor Arcana, Pentacles
Ace of Pentacles
prosperity, contentment, opportunity, news
Upright
Out of a cloud comes a hand holding a large gold coin over a garden with an open gate. Waite gives perfect contentment, felicity, gold and speedy news. The card points to a solid start: something you can hold, use and grow.
A job offer, a small contract or a steady routine can carry this feeling. Treat it as a seed and look after it. The card makes no financial forecast, so ask a qualified adviser before you commit real money.
Reversed
Reversed, the coin is still there, and the question is what it does to you. Waite speaks of the evil side of wealth and bad news, and also of great riches.
Comfort can make people careless or afraid of losing it. Look at a pay rise or windfall and ask what it has changed in how you treat others. Verify any exciting news about money before you act, and get independent financial advice.
A card is a prompt for reflection. It cannot promise a result, and it is no substitute for medical, legal or financial advice.
In Waite's words
Upright: Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold.
Reversed: The evil side of wealth, bad intelligence; also great riches. In any case it shews prosperity, comfortable material conditions, but whether these are of advantage to the possessor will depend on whether the card is reversed or not.
From A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part 3, on Wikisource. The meanings above are by Cast & Chart.
Card art by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.