pentacles
No image of this card
Lady Frieda Harris painted the deck between 1938 and 1943; it was first published in 1969, seven years after her death in 1962. The paintings remain in copyright until 2032 in the UK and EU and 2064 in the United States, so no card images or substitutes appear here.
See the deck at its publisher ↗The Princess of the Echoing Hills; the Rose of the Palace of Earth
Suit: Disks Minor Arcana Element: Earth
Also known as Page of Coins, Page of Disks, and Page of Denaries.
Page of Pentacles: study and practical attention directed toward material possibility. The card joins the earth nature of Pentacles to its courtly role.
The card's place in the historical Minor Arcana sits beside its Golden Dawn correspondences and Waite's account of Pamela Colman Smith's image. Each reading keeps the source and deck that gave it shape.
8 sourced claims: 5 traditional , 3 modern
The Book of Thoth remains in copyright. The catalogue therefore gives the deck's titles, ranks and numbering beside the Golden Dawn material it inherits, while citing Crowley by page without reproducing his text.
This deck calls the card Princess of Disks; it is filed here as Page of Pentacles.
This deck's book publishes no upright and reversed lists, so none are shown. Its account of the card is cited below rather than reproduced.
The card is indexed as the Page of Pentacles; Book T ranks it Princess, while the Thoth deck prints Princess. Its Golden Dawn place is Princess / final Heh · Earth of Earth. Book T titles it The Princess of the Echoing Hills; the Rose of the Palace of Earth. This deck calls the suit Disks rather than Pentacles.
Aleister Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris, Thoth — Part Three: The Court Cards.
Page of Pentacles
A youth holds a pentacle at eye level in a fertile landscape, absorbed in the object and the work it may require.
A concise visual description of Pamela Colman Smith's 1910 design, checked against Waite's card entry and the public-domain scan.
Upright, Waite associates the Page with application, study, scholarship, reflection, management and useful news. Reversed, it can indicate prodigality, dissipation, luxury or unfavourable news.
Waite treats these as historical divinatory allocations and explicitly warns that they vary by context and are not a universal symbolic canon.
Court cards are organised by rank, suit and elemental composition in Book T. They are listed separately because the source does not assign them to the numbered sephiroth in the way it assigns the pip cards.
Book T's formal title, Tree or elemental place, astrological attribution, and characteristic reading. This is the system used by the Hermetic Tree.
The Princess of the Echoing Hills; the Rose of the Palace of Earth
Book T's formal title for this court card.
Earth · Pentacles
Pentacles express the powers of Earth: material conditions, labour, resources, embodiment and practical consequence.
Princess / final Heh · Earth of Earth
Book T uses King for the mounted figure now usually called Knight, Prince for the figure now usually called King, and Princess for the Page or Knave. The source's role is preserved here rather than silently modernised.
One polar quadrant above the earth sign Taurus
The twelve King/Knight, Queen and Prince/King cards bridge zodiac signs; the four Princess/Page cards instead rule polar quadrants.
Generosity, diligence and perseverance establish material force, with wastefulness as the contrary tendency.
A concise paraphrase of Book T's well- and ill-dignified characteristics.
Historical context and places where influential decks or occult systems differ.
One of the fifty-six suit cards in a standard Tarot pack: four suits of ten pip cards and four court cards.
The Met documents this structure in surviving fifteenth-century Tarot: Cups, Swords, Batons and Coins, each numbered from one to ten with king, queen, knight and knave. Occult correspondences developed later.
| Relation | To | First attested |
|---|---|---|
| Suit and element | Earth | 1888 CE |