Minor Arcana · Wands

Five of Wands

Card Code W5

Suit Wands

Rank Five

Description & Symbolism

Five of Wands

A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or strife. It is mimic warfare, and hereto correspond the divinatory meanings.

Divinatory Meaning

Upright

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.

Success in financial speculation.

Reversed Meaning

Reversed

Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.

Quarrels may be turned to advantage.