Five of Pentacles
The Five of Coins represents a challenging financial period marked by stress, isolation, and a struggle for a better quality of life. The card suggests a lack of material means that can marginalize individuals. However, it also hints at hope through perseverance and finding support in difficult times.
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Material Struggles
The Five of Coins represents a fiscally difficult time in one's life, and the stress, hopelessness and isolation that come with the lack of physical means to not only survive but thrive. A lack of material means can shut us out of opportunities to improve ourselves, it puts us on the margins of society, and it makes our attempts to achieve a healthy and happy quality of life a vicious struggle.
Traditional Imagery
In the Smith-Waite deck, these concepts are represented by a destitute couple seeking shelter outside the walls of a church. The warm glow emanating from the stained glass window implies that the church is a safe harbor, and that the couple will be welcomed and protected within its walls even if nowhere else will take them in.
Cultural Shifts
Cultural attitudes towards organized religion, and Christianity in particular, have evolved drastically and in many different directions in just the last century, let alone all the ones that came before it. In the wake of these cultural upheavals, and with the context of my own lived experience, the idea of a church as safe harbor to all is not one that resonates with me, and not one that humanity universally accepts any longer.
Modern Interpretation
So, in my card, the wall belongs to no church. It is simply a wall. A border, an obstacle, a divide that keeps the people in need separated from what they want and require. Four coins are set into the gates, implying the cost of getting to the other side, while the fifth rises like the sun beyond the boundary, full of promise and opportunity.
Hope and Perseverance
But the situation is not entirely without hope. The mother still has her child, and he consoles her, representing hope for the future and a reason to keep trying the closed door. And the fact that there is a door at all means that there is a way through. The Five card encourages us to seek out those who will stand by us in our darkest hour and to hold on to hope in the bleakest of times.
Fyodor Pavlov tarot
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