Five of Wands
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Attributions
Saturn in Leo
The Lord of Strife
The suit of Wands represents the element of fire. It is the intuitive function, the libido, the primitive life force.
Some associations are - career, creativity, energy, desire, action, intuition, sex, movement, victory, enthusiasm, confidence, competition, magic and excellence.
The number five represents disrupted stability, struggle, uncertainty, upset, change, disruption, adversity, conflict, loss, disappointment, challenge and difficulties.
According to Paul Foster Case the number 5 represents FEAR. We sometimes fear our own actions and must remain aware of how they affect our decisions.
The Lord of Strife
The suit of Wands represents the element of fire. It is the intuitive function, the libido, the primitive life force.
Some associations are - career, creativity, energy, desire, action, intuition, sex, movement, victory, enthusiasm, confidence, competition, magic and excellence.
The number five represents disrupted stability, struggle, uncertainty, upset, change, disruption, adversity, conflict, loss, disappointment, challenge and difficulties.
According to Paul Foster Case the number 5 represents FEAR. We sometimes fear our own actions and must remain aware of how they affect our decisions.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or strife. It is mimic warfare, and hereto correspond the Divinatory Meanings:
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.
Reversed: Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.
Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Five. Success in financial speculation.
Reversed: Quarrels may be turned to advantage.
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.
Reversed: Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.
Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Five. Success in financial speculation.
Reversed: Quarrels may be turned to advantage.
Upright
Unrest.
Struggling to unify inner or outer disparities (Paul Quinn)
Everyone has issues!
Unavoidable problems and delays.
Tests and competition.
The strength and courage to cope with challenges.
Physical ability, exercise.
That which bends is less likely to break.
Disagreements.
Quarrels.
Petty annoyances.
Lawsuits and legal battles.
Avoid battles that no one will benefit from.
Putting work ahead of family, love, personal growth.
Real or imagined rivalry.
Squabbles over trivial matters.
Anger with the world in general.
Struggling with self-identity.
Your worth or value is called into question.
Shakiness and self-doubt.
Something has gone wrong.
This is the card of the gambler who won't quit while he's ahead.
Struggling with self-identity, feeling limited, frustrated, stymied, confused and not knowing who you really are anymore.
Fearlessness and joy of the battle, war games, testosterone, hormones acting up.
Spinning your wheels.
Selective hearing and selective memory.
Fevers.
Struggling to unify inner or outer disparities (Paul Quinn)
Everyone has issues!
Unavoidable problems and delays.
Tests and competition.
The strength and courage to cope with challenges.
Physical ability, exercise.
That which bends is less likely to break.
Disagreements.
Quarrels.
Petty annoyances.
Lawsuits and legal battles.
Avoid battles that no one will benefit from.
Putting work ahead of family, love, personal growth.
Real or imagined rivalry.
Squabbles over trivial matters.
Anger with the world in general.
Struggling with self-identity.
Your worth or value is called into question.
Shakiness and self-doubt.
Something has gone wrong.
This is the card of the gambler who won't quit while he's ahead.
Struggling with self-identity, feeling limited, frustrated, stymied, confused and not knowing who you really are anymore.
Fearlessness and joy of the battle, war games, testosterone, hormones acting up.
Spinning your wheels.
Selective hearing and selective memory.
Fevers.
Reversed
Trickery.
Contradictions.
Provoking arguments.
Calm after conflict.
Problem solving through dialogue and not physical fighting.
Compromise and negotiations are successful.
Redefining your role.
Lawsuits and legal battles.
Betrayal.
Creatively exhausted.
A dispute may bring out the worst in a friend's character.
Intimidation, brute force.
Contradictions.
Provoking arguments.
Calm after conflict.
Problem solving through dialogue and not physical fighting.
Compromise and negotiations are successful.
Redefining your role.
Lawsuits and legal battles.
Betrayal.
Creatively exhausted.
A dispute may bring out the worst in a friend's character.
Intimidation, brute force.
Links
- Open Tarot
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- ATA
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