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Properties of 5 of Pentacles
Alternate Names: Worry
Keywords / Additional Meanings: Conquest of fortune by reason. Reversed: Troubles in love.
Description:
Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a lighted casement.
Divinatory Meaning:The card foretells material trouble above all, whether in the form illustrated – that is, destitution – or otherwise. For some cartomancers, it is a card of love and lovers – wife, husband, friend, mistress; also, concordance, affinities. These alternatives cannot be harmonised.
Reversed Description:
Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
Astrological / Elemental Correspondence: Mercury in Taurus