Five of Swords
This card signifies a struggle or conflict dealing with self-worth, pride, or adjusting to new ideas. It suggests overcoming anxiety, reevaluating priorities, and asserting oneself despite opposition. It's about facing limitations and standing firm on one's beliefs to succeed.
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Dual Interpretation
This card can be interpreted both from the position of a craftsman and a merchant interested in buying goods. Other people's ideas and plans can be used for good purposes, but there are strong and weak positions in this situation.
Conflict
The card may imply a conflict or struggle between new and familiar ideas. It may concern wounded pride or a sense of self-worth which can be rectified by subsequent success.
Illustration Description
In the illustration, a craftsman hands over his work to a customer who is indifferent to the craftsmanship involved. This reflects a time of testing one's self-esteem, requiring letting go of something.
Overcoming Anxiety
One must overcome the anxiety of possible failure to maintain self-confidence and gain the respect and trust of opponents or competitors. It may involve defending higher principles, ideas, or others' reactions to them.
Symbols
A geranium, a flower of concentration, self-confidence, and overcoming anxiety, grows in a pot on the table. A peacock, a symbol of confidence, manifestation, honesty, and wealth, is depicted on the fence outside the window.
Upright Meaning
Lack of confidence, being controlled by others, dominance, overcoming anxiety, wounded pride, overcoming obstacles, comparing ideas, avoiding troubles through a positive mindset, facing one's limitations, persistently standing ground, resisting ideas or plans, reevaluating priorities for success, persistently pursuing goals, facing opponents.
Reversed Meaning
Hesitation, malevolence, lack of income, stagnation due to fear or after a defeat.
Keywords
Lack of self-confidence.
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