The Tarot of Eli 2, LLC: Rider-Waite-Smith-Five of Pentacles & The Connolly Tarot- 5 of Pentacles.

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The Rider-Waite Five of Pentacles concentrates on a triter illustration of being "out in the cold" than a more esoteric deck by illustrating the mundane meanings of loss of profession and monetary resources. Here a beggar couple pass below the stain glass window of a medieval church, implying a feeling of hopelessness and lack of Spirit. The five Pentacles are shown in the window stain glass art of the Church. In Western Hermetic Qabalah and Thoth Tarot, Geburah- the Fifth Sephira on the Qabalistic Tree of Life rules the Fives; a state of energy that is severe in its function. Geburah is a corrective state of intelligence, whose severity is an action towards self-assessment, rather than anything karmic.

The Connolly Tarot- 5 of Pentacles just changes the color of the RWS deck into something of a medieval stain glass artistic interpretation. Therefore, it is the same as the Rider-Waite-Smith Five of Pentacles in meaning as it shows a self-blindness towards one's wealth. This card foretells material trouble if profaned as Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot shows. To Dr. Paul Foster Case (B.O.T.A. founder and Western Hermetic Qabalist), the "profaned" are the indoctrinated and dogmatized people who have not grasped the "inner light". However, there is help from the inner self (angelic being) to grasp what is happening. Otherwise, this card proclaims concordance, affinity, and adaptation while also implying that one must analyze and understand their burdens. It is time to stop fearing and take time in your life to review what is happening and what you want.

When the Divination brings up the Five of Pentacles, the querent is going through:

• A period of rumination, anxiety, or concern.
• Feelings of being left out of social events because of lack of money. 
• Challenges of insecurity, deprivation, and even exclusion.  
•  The mind is focused on survival issues and thus stopping creativity dead in its tracks as a feeling of helplessness and inertia take over. 
• A foretelling of material trouble for the next 5 weeks or 5 months. 
• This card reminds us that by focusing on what we have lost or don't have, we cannot create more. We need to focus on what we do have, and on the thing, we can do; just a baby step is all we have, but that is motion and is enough to get us going again. 
• The axiom, "a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step" may be the solution to this worrying problem that confronts the querent's intellect.

If reversed, it implies:

• Failure.
• Collapse.
• Despair. 

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