The deck · Pentacles · Earth

Seven of Pentacles, from the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck

Seven of Pentacles

MoneyBusinessBarterAltercation

Upright

These are exceedingly contradictory; in the main, it is a card of money, business, barter; but one reading gives altercation, quarrel—and another innocence, ingenuity, purgation.

Reversed

Cause for anxiety regarding money which it may be proposed to lend.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

The picture

A young man, leaning on his staff, looks intently at seven pentacles attached to a clump of greenery on his right; one would say that these were his treasures and that his heart was there.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

Older readings

Improved position for a lady's future husband. Reversed: Impatience, apprehension, suspicion.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §4. Waite collected these and says they often disagree with the main meanings.

Waite wrote in 1911 and some of his meanings show it. Tarot is a tradition of reflection, not a prediction, and no card decides anything for you.