The Queen of Pentacles could be understood as the Nine of Pentacles fully matured, an admirer of natural and material beauty, but also someone who can balance these interests amongst a wide array of other interests and commitments. The Queen of Pentacles is a woman that is dependent on no man and will be accepted as an equal even if that means working ten times as hard. There is also connotations that this woman is a mother but is not necessarily motherly, she does not and will not let her children or even her ability to have children define her. As a maternal figure, this Queen possesses a wealth of intelligence and material bounty but is somewhat more want to emotional distance than many of the other female mentors of the deck. This is a Mother who is sometimes more appreciated in retrospect, who raises polite intelligent and independent children, but errs on the side of overly strict.