About these meanings: the traditional descriptions and meanings on this public reference page are taken from material associated with the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck. Some of the language is historical, severe, or old-fashioned. Slogit Tarot modernises this terminology and greatly expands the meanings, examples and interpretations inside the Arcana Nexus learning course.

Minor Arcana · Pentacles

Five of Pentacles

Card Code P5

Suit Pentacles

Rank Five

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Description & Symbolism

Five of Pentacles

Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a lighted casement.

Divinatory Meaning

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.

Conquest of fortune by reason.

Reversed Meaning

Reversed

Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.

Troubles in love.