Meaning
Imitation, as, for example, sham fight, but also the strenuous competition and struggle of the search after riches and fortune. In this sense it connects with the battle of life. Hence some attributions say that it is a card of gold, gain, opulence.
Additional Meaning
Success in financial speculation.
Reversed
Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.
Additional Reversed
Quarrels may be turned to advantage.
Five of Wands
Card No w5
Description
A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or strife. It is mimic warfare, and hereto correspond the divinatory meanings.
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