Five of Wands

Wands

Five of Wands

Meanings

  • conflict
  • competition
  • arguments
  • aggression
  • tension
  • rivals
  • clashes of ego

Meanings Reversed

  • end of conflict
  • cooperation
  • agreements
  • truces
  • harmony
  • peace
  • avoiding conflict

Other Meanings

  • calmly expressing a dissenting opinion
  • allowing someone to use his or her own methods to get a job done
  • opening the floor for discussion or debate
  • comparing progress made so far to standards set earlier

Other Meanings Reversed

  • berating others for their ridiculous opinions
  • picking fights
  • offering destructive criticism
  • baiting people with barbed remarks
  • disrupting progress with an endless stream of pointless objections

Meanings

  • confrontation
  • disruption
  • distinction
  • objection
  • strife

Fortunes

  • Prepare for a fight with your best friend
  • Remember: once you let words loose, you can't take them back

Questions

  • To what extent is your current issue worth fighting for?
  • What alternatives are there to outright conflict?
  • What happens in a "fair fight?" How can you keep this fight fair?
Numerology
5 (The Catalyst: instability, resistance, confrontation)
Affirmation
"I can express dissent in constructive ways."
Five of Wands — Tarot Meanings · Mago Lucas