Barbara Walker Tarot - King of Pentacles: Baal

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King of Pentacles: Baal

 

The mountain god holds the star of knowledge in his head, on a bleak, rocky summit, difficult of ascent. Only men willing to struggle to the mountaintops could learn secrets of the Baals (Middle Eastern gods). Mount Sinai, allegedly ascended by Moses, belonged to the Baal named Sin, Moon-god of the Sinai peninsula. He also ruled volcanoes, appearing (in biblical language) as a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day, and as “the Rock that begat thee.” Baal means “the Lord.” His card means rocklike stability, tenacity, reliability, heaviness, sternness, authority.

 

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Baal was just one of the mates of Mother Earth. The pentacle in his forehead on this card signifies the "third eye" of insight. The King of Pentacles indicates a person with characteristics like those of the ancient mountain gods. He's stern, rocklike, authoritarian and tenacious. His good qualities are that he's reliable, practical and stable.