Five of Pentacles
poverty • destitution • need • crisis
Statistics
arcaneMinor
suitPentacles
number5
numerology5 (The Catalyst: instability, resistance, confrontation)
astrologyMercury in Taurus
Meanings
Light
- Recognizing your needs and taking action to fulfill them
- Doing as much as you can do with what little you have
- Admitting you need help
- Embracing the aid that comes your way
- Focusing on what you have versus what you don't
- Looking for the light at the end of the tunnel
Shadow
- Exaggerating your financial or physical needs
- Adopting a poverty mentality
- Refusing to support yourself
- Refusing offers of support
- Playing the martyr
- Turning down opportunities to improve your health or finances
- Wallowing in misery
Description
Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a lighted casement.