Five of Wands
Minor Arcana · Wands · Fire · Saturn in Leo
Upright
Imitation, as, for example, sham fight, but also the strenuous competition and struggle of the search after riches and fortune. In this sense it connects with the battle of life. Hence some attributions say that it is a card of gold, gain, opulence.
Reversed
Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.
The picture
A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or strife. It is mimic warfare, and hereto correspond the
Correspondences
Book T title
Lord of Strife
Meanings quoted from A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), public domain. Correspondences follow the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's Book T.