IN SHORT:
UPRIGHT: Loss of safe community, poverty, destitution, isolation, worry.
REVERSED: Recovery, learning to receive aid, safe spaces. Tend to healing the open wounds (emotional or bodily).
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IN DEPTH:
The Five of Pentacles shows two people who have set up camp on the street. It’s that awkward time of year, transitioning from a warm autumn to a very cold winter. It’s getting cooler every night, and the blankets are damp from a sweaty day. One of them is about to smoke the last cigarette, and the other finds comfort in their canine companion. The blankets hide a series of wounds, that are being ignored for the time being. Without care and attention these wounds can fester, and become a more serious problem.
Behind them a church window, beckons with an aromatic warmth that seeps out of the basement soup kitchen and out the street vents. However, both of these street-kids have experienced the kind of trauma that teaches a child to never trust ‘good-christian charity’. The churches that abused these kids, obviously are not the church behind them tonight. But, at a certain point it feels impossible to tell the difference. Sadly it seems that the Five of Pentacles will not be able to receive help until they can see that not every church is the one that abused them. The wound is about more than some jesus stuff, it’s a wound that has taught us that society is not safe. And five of Pentacles shows up to remind us that it we must find a way to trust again or at the very least manage our distrust, in order to find the allies and help needed for the path ahead.
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