Last updated: January 28, 2026
The combination of Six of Pentacles and Strength is one of the most powerful transformative pairings in tarot, signaling that significant change is not just possible but inevitable.
A time of balanced giving and receiving, generosity, and sharing abundance with others. The Six of Pentacles represents the beautiful balance of giving and receiving that creates harmony and abundance in communities. You are either in a position to be generous with others or you are receiving help and support when you need it most. The keywords most associated with this card—generosity, charity, sharing wealth, balanced exchange—give us insight into its core energy.
Inner strength, courage, and the power to overcome challenges through patience and love. Strength represents the triumph of the human spirit over adversity through inner fortitude, patience, and compassionate action. This card appears when you need to draw upon your inner reserves of courage, not to fight but to persist with grace under pressure. This card carries the themes of inner strength, courage, patience, compassion, which interact meaningfully with Six of Pentacles's energy.
The earth energy in this combination brings practical wisdom and real-world applicability to the reading's message. Abstract insights become actionable guidance.
When you encounter Six of Pentacles and Strength together, consider what area of your life requires the integration of generosity with inner strength. 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, Six of Pentacles with Strength signals that your love life is undergoing or about to undergo significant transformation—endings that create space for new beginnings.
When these two cards appear together in a love reading, they bring a nuanced message about your romantic life.
Six of Pentacles in Love: Balanced giving and receiving in relationships, mutual support and generosity. You and your partner support each other generously - emotionally, practically, and perhaps financially - without keeping score or creating imbalances
Strength in Love: Patient love, emotional courage, and the strength to work through relationship challenges. This card suggests having the emotional courage to work through relationship challenges rather than giving up when things get tough
Together, Six of Pentacles and Strength signals that your love life is undergoing or about to undergo significant transformation—endings that create space for new beginnings. This combination speaks to the heart of your romantic situation, asking you to consider how these two energies manifest in your love life.
Release what no longer serves your heart. Transformation in love, while sometimes painful, leads to more authentic connections.
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 generosity's energy with inner strength's influence creates a specific romantic signature that's meaningful for your situation.
For career and finances, Six of Pentacles with Strength signals career transitions, job changes, or major shifts in your professional identity.
In professional matters, this card combination carries specific guidance for your work life and financial decisions.
Six of Pentacles at Work: Professional success through mentoring, collaboration, or generous sharing of knowledge. You may be in a position to mentor others, share your expertise, or help colleagues advance in their careers
Strength at Work: Professional perseverance, leadership through example, and overcoming work challenges. This card indicates you have the inner fortitude to handle workplace pressure, difficult colleagues, or challenging projects with grace and determination
The combination of Six of Pentacles and Strength signals career transitions, job changes, or major shifts in your professional identity. These cards together paint a picture of your current professional landscape and the opportunities or challenges ahead.
Embrace change rather than resisting it. Your career is evolving toward something more aligned.
Consider how the themes of generosity and inner strength 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 transformative energy suggests potential financial changes on the horizon.
Spiritually, Six of Pentacles and Strength together marks a pivotal moment in your spiritual journey—an initiation or awakening.
On a soul level, this combination speaks to your spiritual path and inner development.
Six of Pentacles's Spiritual Wisdom: Spiritual growth through service to others and balanced spiritual exchange. You may be called to share your spiritual knowledge, contribute to your faith community, or serve others as part of your spiritual practice
Strength's Spiritual Wisdom: Spiritual courage, taming the ego, and developing inner mastery through love. This card indicates developing the spiritual courage to face your shadow self, to confront your fears with compassion, and to transform negative patterns through persistent spiritual practice
Six of Pentacles meeting Strength marks a pivotal moment in your spiritual journey—an initiation or awakening. This is not a random pairing—the universe is highlighting specific spiritual themes for your attention.
Given this combination's energy, consider incorporating letting go rituals, transformation meditation, and embracing the unknown into your spiritual routine.
The intersection of Six of Pentacles's wisdom with Strength'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 generosity with inner strength 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.
Six of Pentacles Reversed: Imbalanced giving and receiving, strings attached to generosity, or misuse of power.
Strength Reversed: Lack of inner strength, being overwhelmed, or misuse of power.
Both Cards Reversed: When both Six of Pentacles and Strength 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 Six of Pentacles and Strength creates a rich visual dialogue, particularly through their shared symbolism of Pentacle/Coin & Mountain Background and Earth & Mountain Background.
A wealthy merchant weighs coins on scales while giving money to two beggars kneeling before him. Six pentacles hang above the scene, representing the balanced circulation of abundance. The scales symbolize fair exchange and the importance of balanced giving and receiving.
A serene woman in white robes gently closes or opens the mouth of a lion. Above her head hovers the infinity symbol, and she wears a crown of flowers. Her expression is calm and loving, showing no fear of the powerful beast. Mountains rise in the background beneath a clear blue sky. The scene depicts the triumph of spiritual strength over brute force, love over fear, and patience over aggression.
Key Symbols: **Woman with Lion**: Gentle strength overcoming brute force - The power of love, patience, and understanding to tame wild nature
**Infinity Symbol Above Head**: Unlimited potential and divine connection - The eternal nature of spiritual strength and divine support
**White Robe**: Purity of intention and spiritual clarity - The clean heart and noble purpose behind true strength
When these cards appear together, notice particularly how Pentacle/Coin & Mountain Background, Earth & Mountain Background create visual and energetic echoes between the two images. These shared symbols amplify the combination's message.
Shared Symbolic Themes:
Six of Pentacles (6) and Strength (8) combine to 14, reducing to 14—the number of stability, foundation, and structure.
Six of Pentacles - Number 6: The number of harmony, balance, giving/receiving, and responsibility. Generosity in circulation - the flow of abundance between those who have and those who need
Strength - Number 8: The number of mastery, inner power, and material success through spiritual strength. The infinite energy that flows when spirit and matter are balanced through love
The combined numerological vibration of 14 brings the energy of stability, foundation, and structure. This underlying numerical influence colors how these two cards interact, adding a layer of completing and transcendent energy to their combination.
Six of Pentacles
The Generous Giver, The Fair Distributor, The Balanced Exchange
Strength
The Gentle Warrior, The Tamer, The Compassionate Hero
When The Generous Giver, The Fair Distributor, The Balanced Exchange meets The Gentle Warrior, The Tamer, The Compassionate Hero, these archetypal energies catalyze profound change when they meet, each transforming the other. Consider which archetypal patterns are active in your current situation and how their interaction might be playing out in your life.
The Major Arcana Strength brings archetypal weight to the everyday energy of Six of Pentacles.
Strength's Archetypal Journey: After The Chariot's external victory through will, Strength teaches the greater victory of inner mastery through love. This is where the soul learns that true power comes not from dominating others but from conquering oneself with compassion.
Six of Pentacles's Suit Progression: The Six of Pentacles restores balance after the hardship of the Five. A wealthy figure dispenses coins to those in need, scales in hand to ensure fairness. This is the lesson of generosity - that abundance flows best when shared, and that sometimes we give, sometimes we receive, and wisdom lies in knowing the difference.
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. Strength's archetypal energy infuses the practical situation shown by Six of Pentacles.
Use these questions for journaling or meditation with this combination:
Combined Affirmation
“I give while also embracing the wisdom to possess infinite inner strength.”
Understanding the astrological and elemental energies behind each card reveals deeper layers of meaning in this combination.
Moon (Six of Pentacles) meets Sun (Strength) - this combination blends Moon's energy of emotion and intuition with Sun's influence of vitality and self-expression.
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