Five of Hammers Art and Meaning
About the Deck
A modern sketched cartoon deck featuring unconventional suits, bizarre arcana, and a dry, satiric wit.
Provenance
Andrew Plotkin. Web, 2001. Used with permission of the artist.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Enemy triumphs at last moment.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
An attack on the fortune of the Querent.
Reversed
A sign of sorrow and mourning.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Mourning, Sadness, Affliction
Reversed
Losses Trouble (same signification, whether reversed or not.)
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
you will have sleepless nights from joy. If you drink a glass of water every morning, fasting, you will obtain your wish. Great things are at hand; a time of trial will come, but if you lose not courae, the worst will soon be over.