Five of Pentacles Art and Meaning
Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a lighted casement.
About the Deck
Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present.
Provenance
Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.
Meaning of Five of Pentacles from the Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
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.
Reversed
Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Success coming that will balance loss.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
Conquest of fortune by reason.
Reversed
Troubles in love.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Lover or Mistress, Love, Sweetness, Affection, Pure and Chaste Love
Reversed
Disgraceful Love, Imprudence, License, Profligacy.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
parents' death will suddenly change your fate. If a man dies whom you first met on a Friday morning, you will have luck in the lottery; but if a woman in black is the first person you meet on a Saturday morning, you will have ill luck in the lottery.