Minor Arcana · Swords · Air
Five of Swords
Thoth: Defeat
In a reading
A fight where even the winner loses something. Ask whether this battle is worth it.
- Upright
- Conflict, defeat, winning at a cost
- Reversed
- Reconciliation, making amends
Correspondences
- Suit
- Swords · element Air
- Thoth title
- Five of Swords: Defeat
- Golden Dawn title (Book T)
- Lord of Defeat
- Astrology
- Venus in Aquarius (0°–10° Aquarius, 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).