Five of Pentacles
Upright meaning
Material hardship, insecurity, or feeling excluded. Practical support may be needed and can be difficult to ask for.
Something to consider
A difficult stretch can make asking for help feel harder. Look for a specific source of practical support instead of assuming you have to manage alone.
What is on your mind? Begin a reading →Historical texts
Waite: the card
Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a lighted casement.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: 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.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: reversed
Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Mathers: meaning
73. Five of Pentacles.-Lover or Mistress, Love, Sweetness, Affection, Pure and Chaste Love; R. Disgraceful Love, Imprudence, License, Profligacy.
Source: The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888) · Public domain