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Waite–Smith, Pentacles

Five of Pentacles

Two figures move through falling snow beneath a window containing five pentacles. One uses crutches.
Enlarge ↗Source scan, PDF p. 286 ↗

What you can see

Two figures move through falling snow beneath a window containing five pentacles. One uses crutches.

What Waite says

Waite emphasizes material hardship, but records relationship meanings from other readers and says the alternatives cannot be harmonized. The conflict belongs to the source and should remain visible.

Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 272 ↗
Edition and image credits

Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.