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The Rider-Waite- Smith-Four of Pentacles Tarot card, sticks to the mundane divination meaning of the Four of Pentacles which comes from the position of the Sun in Capricorn. Here light and warmth insure material success; but nothing beyond the moment. Waite's illustrates this condition of assured material gain and earthly power completed, but nothing beyond. The powerful ruling personage is firmly placed, grasping a pentacle firmly to his chest, feet planted on other pentacles and one above his head, showing rule on the plane of matter, and a certain amount of possessiveness. Here he is the fortress that protects the city behind, law and order supported by eternal vigilance, but nothing beyond seeking security.

The B.O.T.A. Tarot- 4 of Pentacles, just displays 4 evenly spaced Pentacles, in the copper and green colors of Venus. Four is the number used to display security, such as in "four walls". Therefore, this card is about the surety of possessions and cleaving to what one has. There is no significant difference in meaning from the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot. However, Dr. Paul Foster Case, the founder of the Builders of The Adytum (B.OT.A.) expresses some Qabalistic meanings to this card. Such as Venus ruling over the material world. This is because the metal assigned to Venus is copper, which is noted for its internal corruption, which often shows on the outside of the metal as a green patina or vertigis. Also the Goddess of Love, Venus, is notably shallow and possessively jealous.

When the 4/Four of Pentacles is thrown in a divination, it implies:

• One Is owning their own personal energy, physical potency and vitality. The very act of which proceeds change.
• Is experiencing a feeling of holding on tightly to what one has, emotionally or physically.
•  Is experiencing the enfoldment of Power. Here the Ability to Do Work (Power) is unfettered and the engineer is active.
• The querent is taking solid steps towards creating material security in the physical world.
• Is experiencing the axiom of the 4, "nothing ventured nothing gain". Holding to tightly to what you have, and not taking risks of change.

If reversed, it implies:

• Is experiencing a blockage of creative thought due to avarice, or excessive devotion to material things.
• Compulsivity.
• Stubbornness.
• Stagnation.

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