Small cards, Wands
Five of Wands
Strife
Several demands are competing for the same energy. Distinguish a productive disagreement from a contest that leaves everyone less able to act.
Which part of the conflict is worth your effort?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Saturn in Leo
- Suit element
- Fire
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Geburah
- Ten-degree span
- 0-10 Leo
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. 177 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Five of Wands ↗
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
Five wands cross, with one upright at the centre and flames at their meeting.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 177 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Strife.
The account places conflict, daring and force together. Whether that energy becomes generosity or aggression depends on the card’s relationships in the reading.
Thoth: Five of Wands.
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.