Western Tarot symbolism
Five of Pentacles
The prose describes two mendicants passing a lit casement in a snowstorm. It first assigns material trouble, then reports an alternative love-and-affinity reading and states that the alternatives cannot be harmonised. The additional list introduces conquest of fortune by reason upright and troubles in love reversed. These do not resolve the stated conflict between destitution and concord in the main upright account.
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The card account
LiteraryThe prose describes two mendicants passing a lit casement in a snowstorm. It first assigns material trouble, then reports an alternative love-and-affinity reading and states that the alternatives cannot be harmonised.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe additional list introduces conquest of fortune by reason upright and troubles in love reversed. These do not resolve the stated conflict between destitution and concord in the main upright account.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
These alternatives cannot be harmonized. Reversed: Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 143
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0143
- Original scan leaf
- 149
- Recorded leaf number
- 149
- Current Reader position
- 143
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Five.—Conquest of fortune by reason. Reversed: Troubles in love. Four.—For a bachelor, pleasant news from a lady. Reversed: Observation, hindrances. Three.—If for a man, celebrity forOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 152
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0152
- Original scan leaf
- 158
- Recorded leaf number
- 158
- Current Reader position
- 152
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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