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Five of Wands Tarot Card Meaning
The Five of Wands tarot card means competition, friction and lively disagreement. Friction and competing voices.
Upright
- Competition
- friction
- lively disagreement
Reversed
- Avoiding conflict
- tension easing
- inner conflict
Yes or no
No
The Five of Wands is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Wands. Wands are the suit of fire: energy, ambition, work you care about and the drive to get things moving.
What the card shows
Five young men swing wands at one another in a scuffle. Nobody appears hurt and nobody is winning.
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 Wands is read as competition and clashing opinions. Everyone is pulling their own way. It is more of a scramble than a real fight, and it can be the healthy kind of rivalry.
Five of Wands reversed
Reversed, it is read as conflict dying down, avoiding an argument that needs having, or a struggle with yourself.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Five of Wands 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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