Sulis
This card is dark except for a semi-circle of light at the top, giving the impression that the main part of the image is within some sort of container or tube.
At the top of the tube, decorating it's edge there seems to be a chain of coins or pentacles and inside the dark tube is a wilting rose. It is rendered completely in black and white apart from the head of the flower, which is a red colour wash... It almost looks as if the colour is bleeding from the rose and the image captures the moment that a single petal falls from the flower.
For me, the 5s are really complex cards because 5 is a really complex number. 5 comes half way through the sequence of 1 -10. It shows a change, often unexpected and something that often jolts us out of the security and potential stagnation or boredom that the 4s can become.
5 is also a very magical number. A pentagram has 5 points, there are 4 ancient elements bound together by that mystical fifth element, Spirit. The human body is made up of 4 limbs and a head so 5 is often seen as the number of Man or of The Self.
In tarot, 5s relate to the High Priest, Pope or Hierophant and so often show difficult times but times that have some spiritual significance or some opportunity for learning and growth. I find that the 5s often show times that are difficult when we're experiencing them but we look back on them and know that for growth and forward movement, they were necessary and we're stronger, better people for the experience.
The phrase I think of when I see the 5s and also relating their meanings back to The Hierophant is 'blessings in disguise'... They are the cloud that may just have a silver lining.
Coins and Pentacles show the material world, things that are made, that are tangible and the work that goes into them.
So the 5 of Coins to me is often a card that shows some physical change or the need for some physical change.. Something has to be given up - maybe a job, maybe a change of house, maybe it's drugs that need to be given up...
In this image the petal falling makes me think of that. The rose is wilting but if it were watered, nurtured and looked after a bit the head of the flower would rise and it may even be able to reach the light...
This is a very sad image, just the position of the rose looks sad, as if it's weeping but there is also hope there.
At the top of the tube, decorating it's edge there seems to be a chain of coins or pentacles and inside the dark tube is a wilting rose. It is rendered completely in black and white apart from the head of the flower, which is a red colour wash... It almost looks as if the colour is bleeding from the rose and the image captures the moment that a single petal falls from the flower.
For me, the 5s are really complex cards because 5 is a really complex number. 5 comes half way through the sequence of 1 -10. It shows a change, often unexpected and something that often jolts us out of the security and potential stagnation or boredom that the 4s can become.
5 is also a very magical number. A pentagram has 5 points, there are 4 ancient elements bound together by that mystical fifth element, Spirit. The human body is made up of 4 limbs and a head so 5 is often seen as the number of Man or of The Self.
In tarot, 5s relate to the High Priest, Pope or Hierophant and so often show difficult times but times that have some spiritual significance or some opportunity for learning and growth. I find that the 5s often show times that are difficult when we're experiencing them but we look back on them and know that for growth and forward movement, they were necessary and we're stronger, better people for the experience.
The phrase I think of when I see the 5s and also relating their meanings back to The Hierophant is 'blessings in disguise'... They are the cloud that may just have a silver lining.
Coins and Pentacles show the material world, things that are made, that are tangible and the work that goes into them.
So the 5 of Coins to me is often a card that shows some physical change or the need for some physical change.. Something has to be given up - maybe a job, maybe a change of house, maybe it's drugs that need to be given up...
In this image the petal falling makes me think of that. The rose is wilting but if it were watered, nurtured and looked after a bit the head of the flower would rise and it may even be able to reach the light...
This is a very sad image, just the position of the rose looks sad, as if it's weeping but there is also hope there.