In its most positive state, the Four of Pentacles suggests that you have created wealth and abundance by maintaining a steady focus on your goals and acting conservatively. You are attentive to your long-term financial security, actively saving money and watching your expenses so you can accumulate wealth and live a comfortable lifestyle not just now but also in the future.
Biddy Tarot
This rendition of the Four of Pentacles invokes the King Midas myth. Marigold, was the daughter of Midas, the king who was given the power to turn anything into gold with his touch. Unfortunately, she too was also turned to gold. Because of this, Midas despised his accursed power and sought help from the God of Wine, Dionysus.
This sobering myth has done nothing to quench the desire of many to accumulate massive wealth. Gina Rinehart, the daughter of iron-ore explorer Lang Hancock, rebuilt he father’s financially distressed company. She holds the title of being the richest woman in Australia. Her biggest asset is the Roy Hill Mining project which started shipments to Asia in 2015.
This card can be confronting when it is perceived to speak of stinginess, emotional selfishness, possessiveness, avarice, control freak behaviours, staking claims and blatant materialism. We all know that wealth accumulators can become trapped by their fear of loss or need to keep accumulating.
This female mining magnate is also Australia’s second largest cattle producer, with a portfolio of properties across the country.
If it is true that Rinehart deliberately deflated the value of mining shares in a family trust, to the detriment of her own children’s inheritance, her children are unlikely to turn into gold.
Rinehart has been honoured for her contribution to business, as well as her philanthropy, which ranges from providing support for breast cancer research, being a champion for Veterans, to sponsorship of Australian Olympians. However she doesn’t top the list of philanthropists and it is questionable how any one person can justify their stash of billions .
There is nothing wrong. with the pursuit of wealth but it is important to remember that we never truly own things in life. As the stripped Egyptian Tombs reveal, the treasures we cling to today will eventually belong to someone else.
Perhaps one of the most in your face depictions of the Four of Pentacles is in the Deviant Moon Tarot by Patrick Valenza. His card illustrates the ugly consequences of putting material gain above all else. A grotesque demon escorts a wicked miser from his counting house and leads him to the roaring flames of damnation. Like this miser the fear and greed of those amassing such fortunes may well lead towards a future filled with the kind of regret experienced by King Midas.
Wild Mother Calling 