Book T no. 18 · Queen of Pentacles · Water of Earth
Queen of the Thrones of Earth
Queen of Pentacles · The Queen of the Thrones of Earth
Read to know yourself, not to surrender yourself: relate to the card; never obey it.
Book T (1912)
A WOMAN of beautiful face with dark hair; seated upon a throne, beneath which is dark sandy earth. One side of her face is light, the other dark; and her symbolism is best represented in profile. Her attire is similar to that of the Queen of Wands: but she bears a winged goat's head as a crest. A goat is by her side. In one hand she bears a sceptre surmounted by a cube, and in the other an orb of gold.
She is impetuous, kind; timid, rather charming; great-hearted; intelligent, melancholy; truthful, yet of many moods.
She rules from 20 Degree Sagittarius to 20 Degree Capricorn.
Water of Earth
The Queen of Gnomes.
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 undecided, capricious, changeable, foolish.
In Book T's table
No. 18 of Book T's 78 titles · Queen of Pentacles · Water of Earth
Correspondences
Rules 20° Sagittarius – 20° Capricorn. As Water of Earth, this court is the water 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
The face suggests that of a dark woman, whose qualities might be summed up in the idea of greatness of soul; she has also the serious cast of intelligence; she contemplates her symbol and may see worlds therein. Divinatory Meanings : Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty. Reversed : Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.
Picture sets
Book T deck, SVG. PlayfulProcess (line art traced from the AI painting). CC-BY-SA-4.0.
Book T deck, painting (corrected). AI painting (gemini-2.5-flash-image) from Book T's words, prompt by PlayfulProcess; the dark half of the face painted in by PlayfulProcess. CC-BY-SA-4.0.
Book T deck, painting as generated. 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.