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- noun Plural form of
pentacle . - noun A
suit of the minor arcana intarot , bearing the symbol of disks marked with pentagrams; also calleddisks orcoins .
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Examples
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Those correspondences were classically tied to the cardinal directions: water to the west, fire to the south, pentacles to the north, and swords to the east.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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The suits of the cards themselves possessed elemental correspondences: cups were tied to the emotional currents of water, wands to the creative spark of fire, pentacles to the grounding forces of earth, and swords to the intellectual powers of air.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Puzzle strong in my bower no pentacles could purchase no swords could fell my wintry edifice with the secret code no fists could knock.
Exact Recitations Misti Rainwater-Lites 2011
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The Six of Pentacles showed a smiling, bearded merchant giving coins shaped like pentacles to two needy figures.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Or ... is it the pentacles we have in the house that makes her feel like she should open up about her Goddess needs?
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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The beds are not like normal beds, of course, but are instead cold tables inscribed with pentacles, the lines of which -- at least in the best motels -- are carefully maintained to ensure against breaks where a spirit might slip in.
Road Trip, Part 4 2009
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First, they assembled items representing the Minor Arcana of the Tarot: swords, staves, pentacles, and cups.
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I suppose by now it's a moot point whether those components -- the staves, pentacles, friend-foe-foundation items, etc. -- survived the mucking with the timeline.
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The beds are not like normal beds, of course, but are instead cold tables inscribed with pentacles, the lines of which -- at least in the best motels -- are carefully maintained to ensure against breaks where a spirit might slip in.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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The pentacles represent earth: someone who is very wealthy; money trouble; buying or selling real estate; an opportunity to make lots of money.
The Tarot as a Tool for Writing Your Novel | Write to Done 2009
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