Five of Pentacles: tarot card meaning

Five of Pentacles is card 5 in the suit of Pentacles, associated with the element of Earth. Drawn upright it speaks of friction, work, money; reversed, of material delay, stagnation.

Upright meaning

friction, work, money

Hard times and a sense of being left outside -- scarcity or exclusion that asks you to seek the help that exists.

Reversed meaning

material delay, stagnation

A hand offered or a way in found -- the cold spell is beginning to lift and support is closer than it felt.

The suit of Pentacles belongs to Earth and to work, money and the body.

In a three-card reading

In the past position Five of Pentacles describes the current that carried you to where you are; in the present position, what is most alive in the situation now; in the future position, the direction things tend toward if nothing changes. A reading weighs it against the other two cards rather than on its own.