Hello and welcome to my tiny tarot practice I'm Amelia Hruby. I am the host of this podcast and it records my tiny tarot practice where we explore the tarot card by card starting with the minor Arcana.

Today's card is the five of Pentacles.

In the rider Waite Smith edition of the deck of the tarot this card we see two figures in the foreground walking through snow

one of them is on crutches the other is wrapped in blankets and looks very cold and

generally they look kind of unhappy not to read too much into their expressions but I don't seem positive.

And the background we see this beautiful stained glass window and what appears to be a church of some kind it's got fat the window has five Pentacles in it and it's like glowing almost lit from within.

And that leads many people to interpret this card or interpret that building as a church and to interpret this card as one of

somehow being cast out or being unable to access the promise of sanctuary within the building.

What I've been calling in my mind a treasury which is not a real word but we're drudgery means trudging through the snow it feels.

Like one of the more challenging and - cards of the tarot if I'm being perfectly honest it seems like a card of cold a card of being on the journey and seeking.

Warmth seeking Sanctuary sinking a home seeking a rest and being unable to find that even though it's so

present right next to you we see these two figures they're not looking at the building that's glowing behind that with warmth behind them there looking away from it

and so we don't know if they actually can

get into or they could access this building and have that warmth but they somehow are unable to see it or if they have been denied entry

and so I went to some when I went to some of my favorite text to explore different interpretations of this card I found that people have

different thoughts on it so Rachel Pollock and 78 degrees of wisdom.

Definitely Flags his card is a card of hardship of material troubles but she then connects them passing the church and have looking away from it too.

This five of Pentacles card to the five of the major Arcana in the Hera font and the way that perhaps these folks have rejected Dogma have rejected

you know everything that this church upholds and therefore are Outcast from it and they're looking away because they've chosen not to enter and that's hard and it's cold and it's challenging but it is

an empowering choice

that's also how Jessa Crispin and the creative tarot reads it as a card of feeling rejection but seeing that as a sign of doing it your own way.

And of your own agency and ability to create in your own process.

Jessica does it go door in Tarot for change kind of takes it a different direction that I found really interesting

pointing to the ways that sometimes nourishment is available to us but we're too busy numbing out and turning away to find.

Taxes that which we actually need or that which would actually make us feel fulfilled or Comfort it.

Perhaps we're only accessing that which makes us feel comforted but not that which actually heals sore heals our wounds.

So there's so much in this card

you know what I've pulled it for myself and readings of the past I've just kind of grown and I'm like alright something is not working right now something feels hard something feels bad some things having a material problem but I think there are different ways

to interpret it and I think we're I to pull it now I would be asking myself if there's a place in my life that I feel

rejected if there's a place in my life that I've rejected myself if there's a place in my life where I've chosen to reject something or cast off something and perhaps that's left me a drift or out in the cold and I'd want to sit with weather being out in the cold with something I wanted to comfort

and to find my way back into the sanctuary or whether it's something that I wanted to embrace and step deeper into and farther away from that

sanctuary of perhaps what is familiar and step into the unknown

and I think depending on the situation depending on what I had in mind would determine whether I'm trying to find my way back into belonging or whether I'm stepping out

out of our comfort zones that I might find a deeper more fulfilling sense of belonging elsewhere.

That's today's card my friends that's the five of Pentacles if you enjoyed this episode you can.

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