Five of Wands
The picture · Bright face · Shadow · Way through
Every card has four faces: what the picture shows, the bright face it turns when the situation supports it, the shadow when the same root is overdone or stuck, and the way through that the picture itself draws.
Five youths clash staves in a tangle
Competition that sharpens; heat with no wounds
A scuffle with no direction, energy burned
No one is hurt — give it rules and it becomes training
As your card of the day
If Five of Wands is the first card you draw today, the day leans toward “Competition that sharpens; heat with no wounds”. When it tips toward “A scuffle with no direction, energy burned”, remember the way the picture draws: No one is hurt — give it rules and it becomes training.
Read Waite's 1911 text and the correspondences
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