Book T no. 20 · Knave of Pentacles · Earth of Earth
Princess of the Echoing Hills: the Rose of the Palace of Earth
Knave of Pentacles · The Princess of the Echoing Hills: the Rose of the Palace of Earth
Read to know yourself, not to surrender yourself: relate to the card; never obey it.
Book T (1912)
A STRONG and beautiful Amazon figure with rich brown hair, standing on grass or flowers. A grove of trees near her. Her form suggests Hebe, Ceres, and Proserpine. She bears a winged ram's head as a crest: and wears a mantle of sheepskin. In one hand she carries a sceptre with a circular disk: in the other a Pentacle similar to that of the Ace of Pentacles.
She is generous, kind, diligent, benevolent, careful, courageous, persevering, pitiful.
She rules over one quadrant of the heavens around the North Pole of the Ecliptic.
Earth of Earth
Princess and Empress of the Gnomes.
Throne of the Ace of Pentacles.
Book T as printed in The Equinox I(8), 1912, public domain (notes in square brackets are Crowley's).
If ill dignified
Book T (1912): its words for the card when it falls ill dignified, set apart from its text
If ill dignified she is wasteful and prodigal.
In Book T's table
No. 20 of Book T's 78 titles · Princess of Pentacles (the 1912 list calls it the Knave of Pentacles) · Earth of Earth
Correspondences
Rules one quadrant of the heavens around the North Pole (with the Ace). As Earth of Earth, this court is the earth aspect of a steady and enduring suit.
Waite, Pictorial Key (1911)
A. E. Waite, a member of the Golden Dawn, in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London, 1911) · public domain · he describes the Rider-Waite-Smith picture of this card, not Book T's
A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands. He moves slowly, insensible of that which is about him. Divinatory Meanings : Application, study, scholarship, reflection; another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management. Reversed : Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.
Picture sets
Book T deck, SVG. PlayfulProcess (line art traced from the AI painting). CC-BY-SA-4.0.
Book T deck, painting. AI painting (gemini-2.5-flash-image) from Book T's words, prompt by PlayfulProcess. CC-BY-SA-4.0.
Book T deck, iconography. PlayfulProcess: glyphs drawn for this deck, composed by script (scripts/build_book_t_iconography.py) from the card's own metadata, placed as Book T (1912) places them. CC-BY-SA-4.0.
Book T deck, full imagery. PlayfulProcess: parts drawn for this deck (tarot/book-t/parts, tarot/book-t/glyphs), composed by script (scripts/build_book_t_full_imagery.py) from a spec per card that follows Book T (1912). CC-BY-SA-4.0.
Book T deck, linocut. PlayfulProcess: a linocut printing of the full imagery, composed by script (scripts/build_book_t_linocut.py) from the same spec per card, which follows Book T (1912). CC-BY-SA-4.0.