Five of Swords
Christmas deck
Isis deck
Cat deck
Pisces deck
Version
Version
Version
Version
All the keywords for this card
Five of Swords Upright
- hollow victory
- conflict
- defeat
- discord
- winning at a cost
Five of Swords Reversed
- reconciliation
- amends
- regret
VAir. Uranus in Aquarius. Geburah, the fifth sephirah.
The versions of Five of Swords in the Christmas deck
- Intuitive
- The picture, with the card's name and symbols printed on it. No keywords. Read it before you read anything else.
- Reader's
- The keywords on the face: hollow victory, conflict, defeat, discord. Reversed: reconciliation, amends, regret.
- Astrological
- Uranus in Aquarius.
- Kabbalistic
- Geburah, the fifth sephirah.
- Framed
- The picture inside a navy frame, with the card's name below it.
The versions of Five of Swords in the Isis deck
- Intuitive
- The picture, with the card's name and symbols printed on it. No keywords. Read it before you read anything else.
- Reader's
- The keywords on the face: hollow victory, conflict, defeat, discord. Reversed: reconciliation, amends, regret.
- Astrological
- Uranus in Aquarius.
- Kabbalistic
- Geburah, the fifth sephirah.
The versions of Five of Swords in the Cat deck
- Intuitive
- The picture, with the card's name and symbols printed on it. No keywords. Read it before you read anything else.
- Reader's
- The keywords on the face: hollow victory, conflict, defeat, discord. Reversed: reconciliation, amends, regret.
- Astrological
- Uranus in Aquarius.
- Kabbalistic
- Geburah, the fifth sephirah.
- Framed
- The picture inside a navy frame, with the card's name below it.
The versions of Five of Swords in the Pisces deck
- Intuitive
- The picture, with the card's name and symbols printed on it. No keywords. Read it before you read anything else.
- Reader's
- The keywords on the face: hollow victory, conflict, defeat, discord. Reversed: reconciliation, amends, regret.
- Astrological
- Uranus in Aquarius.
- Kabbalistic
- Geburah, the fifth sephirah.
- Framed
- The picture inside a navy frame, with the card's name below it.
Letter, Tree of Life and sky
These are the fixed links every card carries. A Major Arcana card has a Hebrew letter and a path on the Tree of Life, the Kabbalah diagram of ten spheres joined by twenty-two paths. A Minor card has an element and a place in the Tree's scheme: one of its ten spheres, or for a court card one of its four worlds. Every card also has a sky: a planet, a sign or an element. These links connect the card to astrology and to Kabbalah, and most of them come from the Golden Dawn's tables, as this deck's card system records them.
- Element
- 🜁 Air
- Tree
- Geburah, the fifth sephirah
- Sky
- ♅♒ Uranus in Aquarius
The deck this card is from
This Five of Swords is from the Christmas deck, 78 cards. The Intuitive version is the one printed. See the deck.
The card of the day by email, and one note when a deck can be ordered.
This Five of Swords is from the Isis deck, 78 cards. The Reader's version is the one printed. See the deck.
The card of the day by email, and one note when a deck can be ordered.
The Cat deck is finished and not printed. The printed decks are the Christmas deck and the Isis deck: see the Christmas deck.
The sign-up is an email. Its subject line names the Cat deck, and each email a person reads is one more reader who would want it printed.
The Pisces deck is finished and not printed. The printed decks are the Christmas deck and the Isis deck: see the Christmas deck.
The sign-up is an email. Its subject line names the Pisces deck, and each email a person reads is one more reader who would want it printed.
Sources for this page
The fixed layer of this card (its name, number, letter, element and sky) follows the Golden Dawn's tables as the deck's own card system records them.