Five of pentacles Tarot Card Meanings

Minor Arcana Tarot

Five of pentacles Tarot Card Meanings

Upright Card Meaning

The Five of Pentacles is unambiguously a card of great need and suffering. It signals a time of financial privation and destitution. You may be going through a rough patch with your money, perhaps you have lost your job or fallen into debt.
The Five of Pentacles also represents a different kind of privation, a spiritual privation. This loneliness could result from your financial situation. Perhaps you are embarrassed about your losses and are isolating yourself so that others may not witness your shame. Perhaps your friends have abandoned you at your time of need. Unfortunately, people in our society like to pretend suffering does not exist in order to continue leading their comfortable lives. Many homeless people have reported that the worst part for them is not the cold or the insecurity, but the fact that people do not even say hello anymore.
You are allowed to feel grief and anger at your misfortune, but do not give in to shame. There is no shame in having a moment of bad luck, it is only human. The Five of Pentacles is also advising you to have hope—there is help available where you may least expect it.

Minor Arcana Tarot

Five of pentacles Tarot Card Meanings

Reversed Card Meaning

After the privations of the Five of Pentacles, the card reversed provides a lifeline of relief. Help is on its way, whether through charity, your own strident efforts towards recovery, or the mysterious hand of fate. Whatever the source, allow yourself to feel hope and maybe even a spot of joy. Your time of privation is coming to an end. You can begin rebuilding your life, making sure to ground a stable foundation before soaring to new heights.
However, all is not well with the Five of Pentacles reversed. Even if financially your fortunes have improved or are on the mend, the spiritual privation may still be there. It is hard to remake your life in an orderly fashion after it has been so neatly upended, but perhaps you are clinging to the chaos longer than is necessary. Perhaps you are allowing your bitterness and anger that fueled you during your fall to live in you for too long. Open yourself up to the spiritual world again, now that you have stability elsewhere.