Last updated: January 28, 2026
When King of Pentacles appears with The Hermit, their shared themes become louder and more urgent. The universe is emphasizing this message for a reason.
Mastery of the material world through successful leadership, business acumen, and generous abundance. The King of Pentacles represents the ultimate achievement in material mastery and worldly success. This card signifies someone who has achieved significant wealth and status through practical wisdom, hard work, and excellent business judgment. The keywords most associated with this card—wealth, business success, leadership, financial mastery—give us insight into its core energy.
Soul searching, seeking inner wisdom, and the need for solitude and introspection. The Hermit represents a time of turning inward to seek truth and wisdom through solitude and contemplation. This card appears when you need to withdraw from external distractions and listen to your inner voice. This card carries the themes of introspection, soul searching, inner guidance, wisdom, which interact meaningfully with King of Pentacles's energy.
Both cards share practical, grounded earth energy, doubling its presence in your reading. When the same element appears twice, the universe is highlighting themes associated with that energy.
When you encounter King of Pentacles and The Hermit together, consider what area of your life requires the integration of wealth with introspection. The cards don't appear together randomly—their pairing is meaningful and specific to your question or situation.
This combination often surfaces during times when you're being asked to hold multiple truths simultaneously, finding wisdom in the space where both cards' messages overlap and inform each other.
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In love readings, King of Pentacles with The Hermit intensifies romantic feelings and emotional connections, making this a significant time for love matters.
When these two cards appear together in a love reading, they bring a nuanced message about your romantic life.
King of Pentacles in Love: Secure, prosperous relationships built on mutual respect, stability, and shared success. This card suggests partnerships where both people are successful in their own right and can offer each other practical support as well as emotional connection
The Hermit in Love: Taking time alone to understand your needs, soul searching about relationships. This card often appears when you need to step back from dating or relationship drama to reconnect with yourself
Together, King of Pentacles and The Hermit intensifies romantic feelings and emotional connections, making this a significant time for love matters. This combination speaks to the heart of your romantic situation, asking you to consider how these two energies manifest in your love life.
Pay close attention to romantic developments now. What happens in love during this time carries extra weight.
Whether you're single and seeking, newly dating, or in a long-term partnership, this card combination offers relevant insight. For singles, consider how these themes might relate to what you're attracting or need to develop before finding love. For those in relationships, reflect on how these energies play out between you and your partner.
The intersection of wealth's energy with introspection's influence creates a specific romantic signature that's meaningful for your situation.
For career and finances, King of Pentacles with The Hermit doubles down on professional themes, making work and career matters particularly significant right now.
In professional matters, this card combination carries specific guidance for your work life and financial decisions.
King of Pentacles at Work: Exceptional career success, business leadership, and the ability to create wealth through professional expertise. You may be in a senior leadership position, running your own successful business, or recognized as an expert whose professional judgment creates significant value
The Hermit at Work: Seeking meaningful work, career guidance from within, or roles involving teaching/mentoring. This card suggests taking time to contemplate your true calling rather than pursuing career paths based solely on external rewards
The combination of King of Pentacles and The Hermit doubles down on professional themes, making work and career matters particularly significant right now. These cards together paint a picture of your current professional landscape and the opportunities or challenges ahead.
Career matters deserve extra attention. Important developments are unfolding.
Consider how the themes of wealth and introspection apply to your specific work situation. Are there projects that need this combination's energy? Relationships with colleagues that reflect these dynamics? Career decisions that these cards illuminate?
While this combination primarily speaks to career, it also influences financial matters. The amplifying energy suggests amplified importance of financial planning.
Spiritually, King of Pentacles and The Hermit together intensifies spiritual awareness and makes this a potent time for inner work.
On a soul level, this combination speaks to your spiritual path and inner development.
King of Pentacles's Spiritual Wisdom: Mature spirituality that integrates material success with spiritual values and generous service. You understand that wealth and spiritual growth can coexist when approached with wisdom and right intention
The Hermit's Spiritual Wisdom: Deep spiritual seeking, inner enlightenment, and becoming a spiritual guide. This card indicates that you're ready for deeper spiritual practices, perhaps meditation retreats, intensive study, or periods of spiritual solitude
King of Pentacles meeting The Hermit intensifies spiritual awareness and makes this a potent time for inner work. This is not a random pairing—the universe is highlighting specific spiritual themes for your attention.
Given this combination's energy, consider incorporating intensive spiritual study, retreat, or deepened daily practice into your spiritual routine.
The intersection of King of Pentacles's wisdom with The Hermit's teachings creates a unique spiritual lesson. Meditate on both cards together, allowing their combined imagery and symbolism to speak to your soul. What message emerges when you hold both energies simultaneously?
This combination appears when you're ready to integrate wealth with introspection of your spiritual understanding. The growth available now requires honoring both cards' teachings.
When either card appears reversed, the combination's meaning shifts toward internal work and blocked energies.
King of Pentacles Reversed: Greed, corruption, or misuse of wealth and power for selfish or harmful purposes.
The Hermit Reversed: Isolation, stubbornness, or avoiding necessary inner work.
Both Cards Reversed: When both King of Pentacles and The Hermit appear reversed together, this signals a period of significant internal processing. External action may be premature—focus instead on inner work and self-reflection.
The reversed combination asks: What needs to be unblocked or healed before these cards' upright potential can manifest?
The imagery of King of Pentacles and The Hermit creates a rich visual dialogue, particularly through their shared symbolism of Pentacle/Coin & Mountain Peak and Pentacle/Coin & Snowy Ground.
A mature, successful king sits on a throne decorated with bull heads and grape vines, surrounded by symbols of prosperity and abundance. He holds a pentacle confidently, while his rich robes and castle in the background represent the material wealth and security he has achieved through wisdom and leadership.
A solitary figure in a grey hooded robe stands atop a snowy mountain peak, holding a lantern that contains a glowing six-pointed star. He leans on a wooden staff, his posture bent with age and the weight of wisdom. The landscape around him is barren and cold, emphasizing his isolation from the world below. His light pierces the darkness, symbolizing the inner illumination that comes from soul searching and spiritual discipline.
Key Symbols: **Lantern with Six-Pointed Star**: Inner wisdom illuminating the path forward - The light of divine knowledge guiding both self and others through darkness
**Hooded Grey Robe**: Withdrawal from worldly concerns and material distractions - The cloak of anonymity and humility in the pursuit of wisdom
**Staff (Walking Stick)**: Support during the spiritual journey and authority of wisdom - The earned authority that comes from walking the difficult path of truth
When these cards appear together, notice particularly how Pentacle/Coin & Mountain Peak, Pentacle/Coin & Snowy Ground, Pentacle/Coin & Dark Background create visual and energetic echoes between the two images. These shared symbols amplify the combination's message.
Shared Symbolic Themes:
King of Pentacles (14) and The Hermit (9) combine to 23, reducing to 5—the number of change, freedom, and adventure.
King of Pentacles - Number 14: The King as 14 represents complete mastery of earth energy - wealth, leadership, and material success. Fire of Earth commanding - the material master who creates prosperity through wisdom and ethical leadership
The Hermit - Number 9: The number of completion, wisdom, and universal understanding. The energy of the sage who has walked the full cycle and can now guide others
The combined numerological vibration of 5 brings the energy of change, freedom, and adventure. This underlying numerical influence colors how these two cards interact, adding a layer of stabilizing and nurturing energy to their combination.
King of Pentacles
The Wealthy Leader, The Successful Entrepreneur, The Material Master
The Hermit
The Sage, The Wise Elder, The Spiritual Guide, The Seeker
When The Wealthy Leader, The Successful Entrepreneur, The Material Master meets The Sage, The Wise Elder, The Spiritual Guide, The Seeker, these archetypal energies resonate powerfully, doubling their archetypal influence in your life. Consider which archetypal patterns are active in your current situation and how their interaction might be playing out in your life.
The Major Arcana The Hermit brings archetypal weight to the everyday energy of King of Pentacles.
The Hermit's Archetypal Journey: After Strength's lesson in inner mastery, The Hermit takes the soul into solitude to integrate all previous experiences into wisdom. This is where the journey turns inward to find the light that will illuminate the path ahead.
King of Pentacles's Suit Progression: The King of Pentacles represents the mature, active mastery of earth energy - wealth built through wisdom, empire created through steady leadership. He sits surrounded by abundance, symbols of success on every side. This is the culmination of the material journey: not just personal wealth, but the power to create prosperity for many through wise stewardship and ethical leadership.
When Major and Minor Arcana appear together, the Major card often shows the larger life lesson or theme, while the Minor card indicates how that theme is manifesting in your daily experience. The Hermit's archetypal energy infuses the practical situation shown by King of Pentacles.
Use these questions for journaling or meditation with this combination:
Combined Affirmation
“I use my wealth while also embracing the wisdom to trust my inner wisdom.”
Understanding the astrological and elemental energies behind each card reveals deeper layers of meaning in this combination.
Mastery of the material world through successful leadership, business acumen, and generous abundance.
Soul searching, seeking inner wisdom, and the need for solitude and introspection.
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