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Five of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning
The Five of Pentacles tarot card means hardship, money trouble and feeling shut out. Hard times and feeling left out.
Upright
- Hardship
- money trouble
- feeling shut out
Reversed
- Recovery
- help accepted
- coming in from the cold
Yes or no
No
The Five of Pentacles is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Pentacles. Pentacles are the suit of earth: money, work, home, health and the things you can touch.
What the card shows
Two ragged figures, one on crutches, trudge through the snow past a lit stained-glass window that shows five pentacles.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Five of Pentacles is read as hardship: tight money, poor health, or feeling left out in the cold. The lit window is the card's hint that help is nearer than it seems.
Five of Pentacles reversed
Reversed, it is read as things improving, accepting help, and finding your way back in.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Five of Pentacles is usually read as a no, often in the sense of not now or not this way. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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More Pentacles cards
Ace of PentaclesTwo of PentaclesThree of PentaclesFour of PentaclesSix of PentaclesSeven of PentaclesEight of PentaclesNine of PentaclesTen of PentaclesPage of PentaclesKnight of PentaclesQueen of PentaclesKing of Pentacles
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