Five of Wands Tarot Card Meaning and Art Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present. I made a digitally retouched and painted version of this deck, which I call the "Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck". The cards from that deck, as well as a modern English translation of the romantic English descriptions by Arthur Edward Waite (as appear on the Waite Smith Tarot deck) appear in a cross-referenced format in my book, "A Concise Guide to the Tarot: In Vivid Color"
Provenance
Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.
Tags
wands-5, five-of-wands, five, wands
Description
A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or strife. It is mimic warfare, and hereto correspond the divinatory meanings.Meaning of Five of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
Imitation, as, for example, sham fight, but also the strenuous competition and struggle of the search after riches and fortune. In this sense it connects with the battle of life. Hence some attributions say that it is a card of gold, gain, opulence.
Reversed
Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Obstacles surmounted.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
Success in financial speculation.
Reversed
Quarrels may be turned to advantage.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Gold, Opulence, Gain, Heritage, Riches, Fortune, Money
Reversed
Legal proceedings, Judgment, Law, Lawyer, Tribunal.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
signifies a person high in office, who is well disposed toward you.
