Ace of Pentacles

Upright

A tangible opportunity offered — money, a role, a resource. Solid, and it still requires you to take it.

Reversed

An opportunity missed, or one taken for the wrong reason.

Its element

Earth — the body, money, work, the material. Earth is slow, and slow is why it is the only suit that compounds.

An Ace has no decan. It is the whole element, undivided and not yet spent on anything.

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