Five of Wands Two of Pentacles, World, Lovers
Practical Perspective: She dissociates herself from any connection but they keep fighting. She keeps trying to connect with God and shut out low life stuff. She is in a Higher Consciousness world of her own as she goes through her routine. Whatever kind of fight you mount against her, there’s no connecting, no getting through her defenses. An exercise routine with her partner (a trainer?) keeps her body beautiful. Her connection to God keeps the bad people and spirits out; it’s an ongoing struggle. The couple’s foolish activity doesn’t disturb her. Her immune system fights off one contact after another. She does not even have to try hard to make partner. With her connections, she is above the routine of competing. Romance Perspective: He keeps trying to contact her, but she shuts him out. Whenever she shuts him out, he tries hard to be her lover. Whenever there’s a lover’s quarrel, she doesn’t know him. The advice here is to stay out of a fight or competition, that you have something going for you, some connection, that keeps you ‘above the fray.’ Don’t let other people’s fights affect you, stay out of it. You don’t get down into the trenches to grub for, say, a promotion: You are clearly the leading and superior person. A similar thing is going on in mental and spiritual categories for you today: Keep your mind elevated and your view on the bigger (better) picture. “Don’t let it get to you.”
Meanings and Illustrations:
We start with Two of Pentacles which has the illustration of a person juggling two items back and forth which are attached with an infinity sign, which is a mathematical sign. Sooo it obviously means ‘back and forth forever.’ Behind the figure are ships tossed up and down on waves, which lends the meaning up ‘going up and down’ and instability … and nausea. It often stands for the word ‘keep’ followed by an action word, such as ‘keep fighting’ when the next card means fighting. It also stands for a cycle or a routine. You get the concept, don’t you? This is one of the easy cards! Next we have World, which contains the idea of not letting bad influences in, and therefore being superior. You can see the lady has a barrier between her and all those bad entities outside the wreath. In the occult, this stands for being ‘a master of both worlds,’ which of course is a master operator. She is dissociated from and not influenced by, and is above lower-level, low-class folks and vibes. She also can be a woman with a beautiful body, obviously, since she is unclothed and dancing. Next is Lovers. Lovers in Rider Waite Tarot has complex meanings, besides the obvious. ‘Connection’ and ‘contact’ are key words for it. It also can refer to divine or angelic protection – See the illustration, in which the angel’s outspread wings above the couple is featured – and higher consciousness, arising from ‘connection’ and ‘God’ meanings. It is used for ‘partner’ things as well. So, World and Lovers are both about higher consciousness, each in its opposite way: Lovers is about staying connected to higher thought, and World is about not having any connection to the lower elements. These two together, one can meditate on that, huh? Then there’s Five of Wands, which shows five guys going at it with logs in either a game or a fight. Well, that’s easy and we encounter this card often – it gets around. Struggle, fight, exercise, activity, trying hard, etc. are its expressions. World + Lovers are both about higher consciousness, each in its opposite way: Lovers is about staying connected to higher thought, and World is about not having any connection to the lower elements.