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Five of Pentacles, Waite-Smith tarot, 1909

Minor Arcana · Pentacles · Earth

Five of Pentacles

Thoth: Worry

In a reading

Hard times, out in the cold. Help is nearer than you think; the lit window is right there.

Upright
Hardship, poverty, isolation, worry
Reversed
Recovery, help arriving, spiritual poverty

Correspondences

Suit
Pentacles (Disks in the Thoth deck) · element Earth
Thoth title
Five of Disks: Worry
Golden Dawn title (Book T)
Lord of Material Trouble
Astrology
Mercury in Taurus (0°–10° Taurus, a decan)
Sephirah
גבורה Geburah (5), Strength, Severity (also Din, Judgment, and Pachad, Fear)

Card image: Pamela Colman Smith, Rider-Waite tarot, 1909 (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).