Properties of 5 of Pentacles

 

Alternate Names: Worry

 

Keywords / Additional Meanings:

Conquest of fortune by reason. Reversed: Troubles in love.

 

Description:

Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a lighted casement.

Divinatory Meaning:

The card foretells material trouble above all, whether in the form illustrated – that is, destitution – or otherwise. For some cartomancers, it is a card of love and lovers – wife, husband, friend, mistress; also, concordance, affinities. These alternatives cannot be harmonised.

Reversed Meaning:

Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.

 

Astrological / Elemental Correspondence: Mercury in Taurus