Page of Pentacles in 6 decks
The same card as 6 decks draw it, five and a half centuries apart. What stays the same is the card’s core; what changes is where a reading can find something new. The meanings are written for the Rider–Waite–Smith picture; the descriptions here are of each deck’s own. Not in Oswald Wirth, which has no Page of Pentacles card.
Side by side
Choose any two decks and read the pictures against each other.
Pamela Colman Smith, 1909
A young page stands in a green meadow holding a pentacle up before his eyes with both hands, studying it with total absorption. Behind him a ploughed field runs toward a grove of trees and a distant mountain. He does not move; he looks.
Lequart, Paris, 19th century
A young man in a wide blue and green hat holds a coin up in one hand and rests the other on his hip. He wears a striped tunic with a pleated grey skirt, and one red and one green-and-yellow stocking. A second coin lies on the ground at lower left. The title VALET DE DENIERS runs down the right edge.
Rider–Waite–Smith
Pamela Colman Smith, 1909
A young page stands in a green meadow holding a pentacle up before his eyes with both hands, studying it with total absorption. Behind him a ploughed field runs toward a grove of trees and a distant mountain. He does not move; he looks.
Tarot de Marseille
Lequart, Paris, 19th century
A young man in a wide blue and green hat holds a coin up in one hand and rests the other on his hip. He wears a striped tunic with a pleated grey skirt, and one red and one green-and-yellow stocking. A second coin lies on the ground at lower left. The title VALET DE DENIERS runs down the right edge.
Tarot de Viéville
Jacques Viéville, c. 1650
A young man in a broad yellow and red hat stands facing out in a buttoned green doublet, pleated yellow skirt and red hose. He holds a coin up in his left hand, and a second coin lies on the ground at the lower right.
Visconti-Sforza
Bonifacio Bembo, c. 1450
A fair-haired youth in profile, facing left, holds out both hands towards a faint gold coin tooled into the dark ground. He wears a short full cape patterned with blue interlace, hemmed in gold, and pale hose with a blue band at the knee. Behind him are a green hedge and a low fence above a green meadow.
In the Visconti-Sforza deck the number cards show only their suit symbols, and the trumps are unnamed and unnumbered.
Sola Busca
c. 1491
A long-haired youth in a green cap, purple tunic, red sleeves and one red and one pale leg points towards a small bird in flight. A hawk sits on a green perch above, and a coin lies on the ground by a bare stump. A tassel hangs at his belt and 11 is at the right.
Soimoi
Mike Koz, 2025
A young man with shaggy black hair stands in a red kimono in front of terraced fields, holding a large gold coin with a three-comma swirl in both hands. A stick with a red cloth bundle tied to it rests across his shoulder. A tanuki sits at lower left beneath a bare tree, a red sun hangs over green hills, and red maple leaves blow past.