Tarot card meanings · Wands
What does Five of Wands mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Five of Wands upright means “In this sense it connects with the battle of life”, and reversed “disputes, trickery, contradiction”.
Upright
In this sense it connects with the battle of life.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Disputes, trickery, contradiction.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or strife.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Five of Wands fall in a reading?
Five of Wands belongs to the suit of Wands. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.