5 of Swords

Keywords

• Defeat; conflict, a warning against fighting someone stronger or against an ambush ⇒ retreat as a constructive solution
• Wounds inflicted upon us; humiliation, shame, disgrace, emotional pain, and at the same time the need to release such states
• Also: failure as a necessary experience through whose overcoming we grow
• Figuratively also: an old worldview makes room for new lines of thought; or illness