Five of Wands
The Five of Wands signals standing up for your interests amid rivalry and competitive tension. It highlights disagreements, challenges to your abilities, and opportunities for constructive criticism and self-examination. The card advises asserting yourself with confidence while remaining open to other points of view to avoid harm from attempts to outwit you. Reversed, it warns of unfair rivalry, foul play, and an inability to compromise that can lead to defeat, destructive criticism, or withdrawal.
Keywords
Upright
This card is about standing up for your interests. Rivalry surfaces as you compare your opportunities with others'. A need to protect yourself, healthy competition, arguments, challenging yourself and your competitive abilities. Constructive criticism, examination. The atmosphere of disagreement and tensions. A bothersome proposition.
Card's Advice
You have enough power to stand up for your ideas and emerge the winner. But keep an open mind about other points of view as well.
The Warning
You shouldn't start any business unless you believe in yourself. Your attempts to outwit people will only hurt you.
Reverse
Unfair rivalry, a stab in the back, machinations, foul play, discord, quarrel. Profiting off other people's problems. An attempt to solve a dispute with trickery or bribery. Unsuccessful activity. Losing an argument. Dropping out of the game. Destructive criticism. Inability to find a compromise, an unwillingness to work together. False bravado.
Quick Answer
Yes, if you are ready to fight for what is yours.
Visual Description
A cartouche at the top bears the Roman numeral V and a banner at the bottom reads "Пятерка Посохов." Five wooden staves stand and cross in a grassy field, their vines and grape clusters curling around the poles. Two central figures struggle with the staves: a man in a red tunic stands and thrusts a long staff downward while another man reels and falls back among the poles.
Old Style tarot
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