A Race Against the Onrush – The Five of Wands

Today I drew the Five of Wands, which represents Conflict, Tension, Competition and Disagreement. When I think of these words, they usually have negative connotations, but after thinking more about them, I have realised that there are also positives to these qualities.

Five of Wands - Shadowscapes Tarot
Five of Wands – Shadowscapes Tarot

For me, the Five of Wands represents those times where you feel like everything in the world is against you. Your alarm doesn’t go off in the morning so you wake up running late, you turn the shower on and there’s no hot water, you get to the pantry and realise you forgot to buy cereal, so instead you have toast, and then you drop it on your shirt. You get to the train station to find out the train’s been cancelled, and then you finally get to work and your boss tells you you weren’t even rostered on. Nothing is going right, everything just keeps piling up until you just want to scream. This is the Five of Wands.

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