The Five of Pentacles is the fifth card in the pentacles suit in the minor arcana and represents abandonment, insecurity, poverty, financial loss and a lack mentality. The Five of Pentacles is represented by the number five which is connected to things like change, challenge, adaptability and transformation.
The Five of Pentacles is connected to the element earth and the planet Venus, as it’s associated with financial needs, your sense of worth and supportive forces. This card can represent a time of struggle in your life or feelings of unworthiness and insecurity.
The Five of Pentacles can literally represent challenging financial times. But it can also be connected to your emotional and mental states as well as your connections with others. This card can represent poverty and falling on hard times where you feel unsupported and possibly even abandoned by the universe.
The Five of Pentacles Meaning
This card can mean that you may be feeling insecure and powerless in a situation in your life. The Five of Pentacles also represents that there’s always something to be grateful for no matter how small and that you may need to shift your perspective in order to cope with this situation.
The image on the card shows two people who are wounded and struggling to walk in the snow just outside of a church. Behind them a church window glows as if beckoning them to come inside and into the warmth. Although because they’re so focused on their struggle they miss the shining light and thus keep themselves stuck in an impoverished state.
So the Five of Pentacles can represent a loss of hope or being too focused on the problem instead of the solution. This card also signifies that there is support around you but you may need to change your perspective in order to see this. Everything in life is temporary, including challenges, and reminding yourself of this can be helpful.
Therefore, when the Five of Pentacles comes up in a reading it means that you may be experiencing struggles but that there’s also a way out being presented to you. So not to lose hope and to keep the faith. Alternatively, the Five of Pentacles can also represent things like surrender, a negative mindset and being spiritually guided. Always look to the cards around it for clarification or to get a deeper meaning.
Upright
Feeling abandoned, falling on hard times, financial poverty, financial loss, struggle, sickness, impoverishment, loneliness, unworthiness, feeling lack.
Reversed
An end to difficult times, new financial opportunities, restoring hope, placing your trust in the universe, getting unstuck, blocks being removed.
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