Five of Disks — Worry is a card of the Minor Arcana, suit of Disks in the Thoth Tarot. In a reading it speaks of worry, anxiety, precariousness and tension. In the Golden Dawn system it corresponds to the sephirah Geburah, the element Earth and Mercury in Taurus in astrology.
worry · anxiety · precariousness · tension · material difficulties
What does Five of Disks mean?
Face the worries one at a time, pragmatically and without catastrophising; ask for concrete help.
Everyday meaning
Worries, financial or health difficulties, anxiety about the future. It points to a period of prolonged tension linked to material security, often more wearing than dramatic.
Psychological meaning
The anxiety that arises when stability wavers: the mind circles concrete problems without finding peace, and the unease becomes a burden in itself.
Initiatic meaning
Earth in Geburah, Severity, with Mercury in Taurus in the first decan: Mercurial intelligence frets within the slowness of Taurus. Worry is the stability of Chesed shaken by Geburah, a tension which, given the inert nature of Earth, tends to last.
The shadow side
Ill-dignified, it signals mistrust, a sense of poverty, blockage, giving up the search for solutions.
Five of Disks reversed
The Thoth Tarot is traditionally read without reversed cards: the reader judges from the cards around it whether a card is well or ill dignified. This is its ill-dignified or blocked reading:
The anxiety begins to ease and solutions come into view; or worries ignored that pile up.
Five of Disks in love, work and spirit
In love
Tensions linked to practical matters, home or money; a need for mutual support.
At work and career
Financial difficulties, job instability, pressure; reviewing the budget helps.
In spiritual practice
Cultivating trust even when the ground under your feet seems to move.
Kabbalah, astrology and the Hebrew letter of Five of Disks
Geburah · Earth · Mercury in Taurus
Crowley on Five of Disks
In the Thoth deck five disks arranged in an inverted pentagram carry the symbols of the tattvas, the Indian elements, in a tangle of tense lines: matter restless, at friction with itself.
Frequently asked questions
What does Five of Disks mean in the Thoth Tarot?
Face the worries one at a time, pragmatically and without catastrophising; ask for concrete help.
What does Five of Disks mean in love?
Tensions linked to practical matters, home or money; a need for mutual support.
What does Five of Disks mean for work and career?
Financial difficulties, job instability, pressure; reviewing the budget helps.
What does Five of Disks mean reversed?
The Thoth Tarot is traditionally read without reversed cards: the reader judges from the cards around it whether a card is well or ill dignified. This is its ill-dignified or blocked reading: The anxiety begins to ease and solutions come into view; or worries ignored that pile up.
What are the Kabbalah and astrology correspondences of Five of Disks?
In the Golden Dawn system Five of Disks corresponds to the sephirah Geburah, the element Earth and Mercury in Taurus in astrology.
