Five of Pentacles

Material troubleDestitutionLove and loversAffinities

Upright

The card foretells material trouble above all, whether in the form illustrated—that is, destitution—or otherwise. For some cartomancists, it is a card of love and lovers—wife, husband, friend, mistress; also concordance, affinities. These alternatives cannot be harmonized.

Reversed

Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

The picture

Two mendicants in a snow-storm pass a lighted casement.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

Older readings

Conquest of fortune by reason. Reversed: Troubles in love.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §4. Waite collected these and says they often disagree with the main meanings.

Waite wrote in 1911 and some of his meanings show it. Tarot is a tradition of reflection, not a prediction, and no card decides anything for you.