1. Tarot
2. Card meanings
3. Five of Pentacles

Minor Arcana · Pentacles

Five of Pentacles

• love and lovers
• concordance
• affinities

Upright meaning

Hardship and companionship. Waite admits two readings that cannot be harmonised; one of them is love and lovers, concordance and affinities. A card about not facing a cold season alone.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite gives disorder and discord. A prompt to ask for help, and to accept it.

• discord

Symbolism

Two figures pass through the snow beneath a lit window.

Group

Minor Arcana · Pentacles

Element, astrology

Not given by Waite, so we give none

Source

Our own plain-English summary of A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1911), Part III §2 (The Lesser Arcana). The keywords are Waite’s own words. Waite’s fortune-telling lists also contain harsher terms; we keep to the reflective readings he gives and never state an event as certain.

Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction of fixed outcomes. This is not medical, legal or financial advice.