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Five of Wands

Fire · Wands
The Five of Wands card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

Five young figures brandish wands at one another in what looks as much like a scrap as a fight.

Upright

  • Friction
  • Competition
  • Noise

Nobody on this card is hurt, which is the traditional point: friction that is untidy rather than dangerous. It asks what the disagreement is actually about.

Reversed

  • Truce
  • Avoided conflict
  • Exhaustion

Reversed, either the noise settles, or it is being kept out of the room at a cost — and the tiredness of holding that.

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About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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