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Five of Disks

Worry

A material concern deserves a concrete account. Separate the known constraint from imagined extensions of it, then identify the support or information that would change your options.

Which part of the problem can you make specific?

Correspondences

Suit element
Earth
Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
Geburah
Ten-degree span
0-10 Taurus
Sources

The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.

Book T (1912) · printed p. 196 ↗

The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Five of Disks ↗

Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.

Symbols

In the Book T design

Roses fall from a branch among five pentacles, leaving no buds.

Two accounts

Book T: Lord of Material Trouble.

The account describes financial or practical difficulty and the labour required to meet it. Skill and persistence can sometimes recover what has been lost.

Thoth: Five of Disks.

Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.

Read Book T ↗

Related cards

Sources

Book T (1912) · printed p. 196 ↗

The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Five of Disks ↗