Minor Arcana · Pentacles
Five of Pentacles tarot card meaning: upright and reversed
This is the card of feeling out in the cold. The Five of Pentacles reflects hardship, worry about security, or a sense of being excluded and unsupported. Part of the story is what you can’t see yet: warmth and help may be closer than it feels, if you can look up and ask.
- Upright
- hardship, feeling left out, insecurity, worry, isolation
- Reversed
- coming in from the cold, support found, hope returning, hardship easing
- Yes or no
- Leans no upright; maybe reversed
Five of Pentacles upright
hardship · feeling left out · insecurity · worry · isolation
This is the card of feeling out in the cold. The Five of Pentacles reflects hardship, worry about security, or a sense of being excluded and unsupported. Part of the story is what you can’t see yet: warmth and help may be closer than it feels, if you can look up and ask.
Where is the lit window in your life right now, and what stops you from knocking?
Five of Pentacles reversed
coming in from the cold · support found · hope returning · hardship easing
The winter begins to ease. Reversed, the Five of Pentacles can show you finding support, accepting help or slowly regaining a sense of security after a hard time. It can also show a feeling of exclusion lifting as you reconnect with others.
What help have you been offered that you haven’t yet let yourself accept?
Five of Pentacles in love
Upright
You may feel left out, unsupported or alone within a relationship, and reaching out honestly can be a first step toward warmth.
Reversed
You may be reconnecting after a lonely stretch, finding warmth and support you weren’t sure was there.
Five of Pentacles at work
Upright
A difficult stretch at work or a sense of insecurity may be weighing on you; leaning on others for support is a strength, not a weakness.
Reversed
A hard period may be giving way to steadier ground as support and new footing appear.
Five of Pentacles as feelings
For questions like “How do they feel about me?” The card describes a possible mood, never what someone really thinks.
Upright
A mood this card can describe: loneliness or worry, finding it hard to ask for help. Is there a door either of you hasn’t knocked on?
Reversed
A mood this card can describe: warming up and letting others in again. How can you meet that halfway?
Is Five of Pentacles a yes or no card?
Upright
Leans no. Five of Pentacles: out in the cold, help not yet asked for.
Reversed
Maybe. Five of Pentacles reversed: coming in from the cold, gradually.
A lean is the card’s mood, not a verdict. Yes or no tarot can’t answer questions about health, pregnancy, money, the law or what someone else will do. Draw one card for a yes or no question, or see every card’s lean.
Five of Pentacles in Lanterndeck’s deck
Lanterndeck draws a coat hung up with a torn pocket, five coins fallen on the floor and the red thread unraveling, a candle burning low: hardship, and the small light still there.
Five of Pentacles by the numbers
| In a one-card draw | 1 in 78 (1.3%) |
|---|---|
| In a three-card spread | 1 in 26 (3.8%) |
| In a ten-card Celtic Cross | about 1 in 8 (12.8%) |
| Reversed, when it turns up | about 1 in 3 in Lanterndeck’s draw |
Five of Pentacles is the fifth of the 14 cards in the suit of Pentacles, between Four of Pentacles and Six of Pentacles.
Draw with Five of Pentacles in mind
Ask your own question and draw three cards from the full deck. Five of Pentacles may turn up or it may not: the draw is random, and the reading works with whatever comes.