Traditionally, we tend to think of this
card as representing loss – loss of faith, loss of material wealth or
possessions. It’s associated,
astrologically, with Mercury in Taurus: Mercury representing the anxiety and
worry, through its ‘Air-iness’ – the thoughts and beliefs that we carry in our
minds – and Taurus the earthy concerns around comfort and security. But it’s
not just about the money; the loss of faith or self-esteem or self-worth can
also lead us into a ‘black hole’ of feeling hopeless; it may be time to address
more ‘spiritual’ issues too.
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| Five of Coins (trimmed): © Margarete Petersen Tarot |
The image on Margarete Petersen’s Five of
Coins shows a dark oval face set in a gold-bronze-green rectangle. I can make
out another face etched into the paint, and what looks like a ‘P’ painted at
the top, but no other obvious (to me) symbols. In the LWB, Petersen writes of the ‘blind
woman who stays on the track of fear and loss regains her sight’; the face on
the card, perhaps? I see the Five as a
reminder that movement is necessary to avoid getting stuck in the potential rut
that the Four presents, with all its solidity.
Stuck in routine, fear
of losing security -
Movement is required.
Margarete Petersen Tarot, AGM-URANIA, 2004
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