Pentacles · Earth
Five of Pentaclesfor Aries · Work and Career
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Two beggars in a snow-storm pass a richly lighted window. Pentacles represents wealth and the five card represents a challenge. The five of pentacles represents a financial loss, or scarcity mindset.
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This card foretells a financial hard time; perhaps a car breakdown or unexpected expense will come up. Maybe your job feels unstable or your partner might be losing their job. It can also mean something is causing scarcity mindset in terms of romantic or platonic relationships (it can hint at infidelity). You feel like you might become destitute (financially or emotionally). Try to not give energy to your fears of loss, and lean on your community to get through a tough time.
You have reversed a poor financial decision and made a comeback-- having to make do with less has taught you a lesson (perhaps who you can lean on or how strong you actually are)
Older decks just showed five coins. Pamela Colman Smith, who drew this 1909 deck, was among the first to paint a full scene for every card.
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Five of Pentacles for Aries in Work and Career
The Initiator
Pentacles are the earth suit, so the Five of Pentacles sits in Capricorn. Capricorn squares Aries, so the card asks for the move Aries is least fluent in: change one concrete arrangement this week. The friction is the content, not an obstacle to it. Upright, the loss is happening rather than being feared, which is the harder and simpler thing.
When reading about work through an Aries lens, the Five of Pentacles says that you feel like work is the place you prove you are not wasting time, a problem to solve fast (or escape), and something that only matters if you can see the finish line tomorrow. This has either led to building something from nothing in record time or to leaving behind half-finished things because the sprint ended and the marathon scared you. You have not asked yourself what you actually want from this work, only what you think you should want from it. The Aries blind spot in it is the feeling that nothing you do makes any difference, that you are not the center of the story.
In practice that can look like a promotion that is really more work. Whatever form it takes, it is breaking, and the loss in it is real.
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