TrueStar
Whever the 5 of Pents pops up, I laugh to myself and say: "beeh, not that bad!". The point is that I feel in a contradiction with this card: I can't avoid remembering the highly positive value that this one has in the traditional meanings (Marseilles and such). As you may know this other meaning for the 5 of Pents is almost the reverse of the one it has in the RWS: achievement of plans and, mainly, having a (sentimental) relation with somebody.
I wonder what was the intention of the creators of this deck when they put a so dark and pessimistic value in this card. There wasn't enough somber cards in tarot? LOL I guess they had their reasons for going this way. Anybody knows? May be kabbalistic reasons?
Anyway, what I would like to know is if any of the people that reads with the RWS also doubt with the meaning of this card, or if they see it just in the traditional positive way.
Thanks in advence for your answers
Daniel
I wonder what was the intention of the creators of this deck when they put a so dark and pessimistic value in this card. There wasn't enough somber cards in tarot? LOL I guess they had their reasons for going this way. Anybody knows? May be kabbalistic reasons?
That "these alternatives cannot be harmonized" always intrigued me... It's a pity this man was so obscure.A. E. Waite in "Pictorial Key to the Tarot" said:Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a lighted casement. Divinatory Meanings: The card foretells material trouble above all, whether in the form illustrated--that is, destitution--or otherwise. For some cartomancists, it is a card of love and lovers-wife, husband, friend, mistress; also concordance, affinities. These alternatives cannot be harmonized. Reversed: Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
Anyway, what I would like to know is if any of the people that reads with the RWS also doubt with the meaning of this card, or if they see it just in the traditional positive way.
Thanks in advence for your answers
Daniel