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Pentacles · V

Five of Pentacles

Lord of Material Trouble

The face of Five of Pentacles, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Lord of Material Trouble.

Hard times pass faster with help. The lit window is closer than it looks.

Upright

Hardship, scarcity and feeling left out in the cold.

Reversed

Recovery and spiritual or material help arriving.

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The spirit work

In the Goetia, Berith turns metals to gold by day; Haures answers truly when bound by night. Ask for help, and say yes when it comes.

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Correspondences

DecanMercury in Taurus, 0° to 10°, the first face
Tree of LifeGeburah in Assiah
Governing angelsMebahiah by day, Poyel by night
Image of the decanA naked husbandman going out to sow, plough, build and divide the earth.
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Day spiritBerith, duke
The seal of Berith

Appears as a soldier in red on a red horse, crowned in gold. Answers of past, present and future, turns metals to gold, gives dignities. Called with a ring. Goetia 28.

Night spiritHaures, duke
The seal of Haures

Appears as a terrible leopard, then a man with flaming eyes. Answers of all times when bound in the triangle; speaks of creation and the fall, destroys the magician’s enemies. Goetia 64.

Five of Pentacles in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Notes on sources

The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.