The Five of Pentacles tarot card is one of the Minor Arcana cards, representing a moment of destabilisation, weakening and weakening for the consultant. However, it is a fleeting phase that calls for overcoming strength and a more open mind for this to happen.
Due to the suit of Pentacles , which refers to abundance and prosperity, the card will be linked to irresponsibility in actions. These attitudes end up bringing instability in various aspects of the consultant’s life. This suggests the need for a change in attitudes and a reflection on what we really want, so that we can reach our full potential both in the professional, financial and emotional fields.
In the illustration of the Five of Pentacles tarot card, there are five coins (pentacles), in addition to a poverty scenario with two people going through difficulties, poor and sick. The visual of the card has a symbology that refers to fragility, loss and disharmony in life.
More specifically, we parse the card image as follows:
The image of two people dressed in rags, barefoot and walking in the snow, symbolizes difficulties and fragility;
The two people in the snow are trying hard to keep walking, even in the face of difficulties. This indicates that the situation will be temporary if the consultant has the strength to overcome it;
Beggars in rags in the image of the Five of Pentacles card also refer to financial losses or even emotional fragility.
The letter’s snow and dark background underscore the tone of loss and hardship.
Keywords are like summaries of what a card can mean in the tarot, making it easier to memorize. So let’s get to know the keywords related to the Five of Pentacles card.
Keywords: temporary financial difficulties, negative changes in circumstances, fragility, suffering, unemployment, alienation.
Reversed keywords: positive change, recovery from losses, progress, overcoming adversity, being accepted, luck.
Now, after examining the symbology of the visual components and the keywords related to the Five of Pentacles and their inversion, let’s move on to analyzing their deeper meanings in love, relationships, career, money, health and spirituality.
In general, the Five of Pentacles will represent difficulty, rejection or a negative change ahead. The querent may have the feeling that everyone is against him, or that nothing is going as expected in his life. However, the letter also serves as a reminder that this situation is only temporary, and you need to reflect on your actions and whether you are allowing help from friends and family. Nothing lasts forever and this too shall pass.
The Five of Pentacles is a card that carries heavy energies. You are suffering a lot and reliving inside yourself situations and bad moments from the past repeatedly, which ends up negatively infecting your future and directly influencing your way of acting and thinking. It’s like the universe is working against you and preventing you from seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. The moment is one of insecurity, of fear, of feeling alone and surrounded by difficulties and problems that seem to multiply before your eyes, pulling you towards an open abyss within yourself and carrying you towards a dangerous darkness. Losses can be felt for some time and intensify over the days, making it more difficult to move forward and affecting all areas of life, especially the financial area and physical and mental health.
At this time, the first thing to do is try to remain calm and not get carried away by depression and bitterness. You are able to survive the storm that hits you, but you need to work first on your insides to be able to deal with life’s adversities and overcome the losses that will appear in your path. Your friends and family are ready to help you. Don’t be ashamed to ask for this help. You need hands to lean on and get back on your feet, even if they are strange hands. Be patient and don’t give up.
In a reading aimed at love and relationships, the Five of Pentacles card is not positive. Because if the consultant is in a relationship, it could mean that negative feelings are weakening the relationship, such as rejection, separation and divorce.
It is necessary to make a decision regarding what may be weakening this relationship, and then act to maintain the relationship or end it.
If the querent is single, the Five of Pentacles may indicate that his affection is being denied or that there will be rejection by the person he likes. It can also signify a feeling of loneliness and isolation from other people.
When the Five of Pentacles appears in a reading related to money and career, it suggests that there are difficulties in both areas. And these difficulties can be related to the loss of a job, financial investment problems, and trust and anxiety issues.
The main message is that, despite financial and professional adversities, consultants must remain positive and look for alternative actions to overcome their difficulties. In general, one should be very careful with money-related actions when the Five of Pentacles appears in a reading.
In a tarot reading focused on health issues, the Five of Pentacles card can indicate a time of illness or health problems. And these health-related problems may be caused by other aspects of life that are out of balance.
For example, problems and adversities in relationships and in professional and financial life may be causing illness, anxiety and stress. The Five of Pentacles alerts you to the need to take time out to take care of your health.
In a context reading focused on spirituality, the Five of Pentacles can indicate a period of spiritual difficulties, in which the querent feels as if the world was all against him.
The Five of Pentacles warns you to remember to draw your spiritual strength from the difficulties encountered, as they will not last forever and can strengthen your spirituality by bringing valuable lessons.
When the Five of Pentacles card appears reversed in a tarot reading, it will usually bring positive meaning to the seeker. For in general it means overcoming adversity, improving problems in various aspects of life.
The consultant must be going through a phase of positive feelings and actions to overcome conflicts. Thus, the reversed Five of Pentacles points to a positive change in circumstances, forgiveness for past situations or the release of relationships and feelings that were being harmful.
Unlike its upright position, the Five of Pentacles, when inverted, indicates overcoming, overcoming challenges and overcoming stressful and difficult moments. You went through a lot and, sometimes, you believed that you wouldn’t be able to survive the turmoil that plagued you day after day, but your willpower made you overcome all the problems and losses and helped you to rise again, even when it seemed that there was nothing more to be done. Life smiled at you again, because you knew how to work your mind and body to cross the turbulent sea of yesteryear. Good times are present right ahead and it is because of your determination, drive and self-confidence that they happen. All areas of your life begin to improve and difficulties are being overcome, providing a positive energy that, little by little, begins to take over your being and fill you with new hope. It may take a while for everything to be balanced again, but the path to achievement forms under your feet.
In the love and relationship reading, the Five of Pentacles reversed is an indication that adversities and conflicts within a love relationship are being overcome in a positive way.
This overcoming can occur either by stabilizing the relationship or by making the decision to end the relationship that was not working well.
In the case of singles, the reversed Five of Pentacles indicates overcoming a feeling of loneliness and rejection in relation to others, or to an object of affection. There will be a much more positive feeling about romantic possibilities, which may attract other people.
In a reading focused on the financial and professional side, the inverted Five of Pentacles brings a very positive aspect to the consultant. In general, it will represent the return to a good phase of financial and work stability.
It may be time for a new job, new investment opportunities and good financial returns. For the consultant, the phase of insecurity and instability at work and in relation to money is coming to an end.
For questions related to the consultant’s health, the inverted Five of Pentacles card indicates a good result of treatments for those who were experiencing health problems and illnesses. In addition, it brings a feeling that there is a plan that is being followed for the recovery of health and personal well-being. It is therefore a positive card that indicates good omens for health.
In a spiritual context, the inverted Five of Pentacles is a card that indicates overcoming and spiritual elevation through personal reflections. The consultant managed to overcome difficulties and reach a state of strength and wisdom that enriched his spirituality.
When the Four of Pentacles is present in a tarot reading that can result in simple Yes or No answers, the answer will be a No.
Combining the Five of Pentacles card with other tarot cards will support and indicate the reflections and actions that must be taken to overcome the adversities indicated by the Five of Pentacles.
The combination between the Five of Pentacles and the Moon indicates the difficulty in achieving goals, even with the willingness to overcome obstacles that may appear. However, such losses can be neutralized with other gains, achieving control of the situation.
In matters of infertility, for example, this combination indicates that it can be overcome.
The combination of these two cards also indicates a strong concentration of negative energies linked to obsession, oppression, selfishness and vanity.
The combination of these two cards indicates that the querent may be going through a destabilization in his personal life, with problems related to housing specifically. There may be a difficulty in maintaining your home, or the fear of being homeless.
The combination of these cards in the tarot alerts to the existence of an exacerbated feeling of pride that can be harmful to the consultant. Furthermore, there is the possibility that your struggle to overcome adversity and obstacles may result in more harm than good.
This combination of cards indicates an unfortunate situation in the querent’s life. There is a precarious situation that must be remedied by overcoming these adversities that lead to unhappiness.
Here are some of the common associations with the Five of Pentacles tarot card.
The Five of Pentacles represents the personality that is strong as well as finding great satisfaction in personal freedom. With Mercury in your life script, you love travel and adventure, with your own rules.
Careers that allow for travel and setting your own working hours are the most rewarding for Five of Pentacles people.
Questioning the tarot about how someone feels about you, and the Five of Pentacles tarot card appears and indicates generosity and concern, perhaps even being excessive because of your strong personality.
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