Five of Pentacles
Secret whisperSnow beyond the lit window; the door of help is nearer than it seems.
Upright meaning
Upright keywordshardship, loss, isolation, worry
A hard season, financial or emotional. Don’t suffer alone — help is closer than you think.
Reversed meaning
Reversed keywordsrecovery, help received, renewal, the end of hard times
Things are improving after a difficult time. Accept the support that is offered.
About the suit of Pentacles
Pentacles belong to Earth: money, work, the body, home and the slow building of security. They ask what is real, practical and lasting.
Reading the Fives of the tarot
Fives break the calm: conflict, loss or change that unsettles what the four built.
In Waite’s own words (1910)
From A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, public domain. Original English text.
Divinatory meaning: The card foretells material trouble above all, whether in the form illustrated--that is, destitution--or otherwise. For some cartomancists, it is a card of love and lovers-wife, husband, friend, mistress; also concordance, affinities. These alternatives cannot be harmonized.
Reversed: Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
The picture
Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a lighted casement.
