Five of PentaclesTarot card meaning

What the card shows

Two figures struggle through falling snow, one on crutches, one barefoot in a thin shawl, passing under a lit stained-glass window with five pentacles in it. The window belongs to a warm room, and there is a door somewhere near it. The card shows the cold honestly, and shows the help close by that hardship cannot see.

Five of Pentacles reversed

The door of the church opens. Reversed, it marks recovery beginning, aid accepted, work returning, the end of a winter that felt permanent.

Five of Pentacles in love

In love, the Five of Pentacles is two people out in the cold together: walking through the snow past a lit window, not going in. It speaks of a couple in a money or health crisis, of feeling alone inside a relationship, of a love that survives the bad stretch or breaks in it. The card points at the window. Help is one pane of glass away, and it has to be asked for.

Is Five of Pentacles a yes or a no?

The Five of Pentacles answers no, for now. Two figures suffer the cold in the snow outside a lit window with five coins in its stained glass, and they do not go in. What you ask leaves you outside something you need. The no changes when you ask for help, and the help is one pane of glass away.

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Compare: the same card in all four suits

Cards that often appear with it

• Six of Pentacles

  The next card in the suit

• Five of Swords

  The same number in the opposed element

• The Empress

  The Major Arcana that rules this suit's questions

Number and correspondence

In the deck's old correspondences, the Five of Pentacles belongs to Mercury in Taurus.