Five of Pentacles
Content Warning: Evangelicalism.
Definition
This card foretells material trouble above all, whether in the form illustrated – that is, destitution – or otherwise, for some cartomancists, it is a card of love and lovers – wife, husband, friend, mistress; also concordance, affinities. These alternatives cannot be harmonized. Reversed: disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy, troubles in love.
Detail
It's snowing.
Day
The detail of this card, is that it is cold. However, I live more south than the deep south. And I haven't experienced a snow storm in at least 35 years. I don't remember it as a hardship, it was always fun. Snow = play. However, this card has more than one hardship going for it; snow, broken appendages, head trauma. Are they headed towards help and safety? Perhaps that are leaving, having not received help.
How do I relate to this today? The low hanging fruit of course is that I have left the church, and without being helped, so to speak. Of course, the truth is a lot more nuanced and complicated, but it is an immediate connection, nonetheless.
Perhaps snow can represent my evangelical journey to some extent. First it was joyful and full of play and imagination. Now it represents an oppressive hardship; something to escape.
