Five of Wands
Upright
Imitation, as, for example, sham fight, but also the strenuous competition and struggle of the search after riches and fortune. In this sense it connects with the battle of life. Hence some attributions say that it is a card of gold, gain, opulence.
Reversed
Litigation, disputes, trickery, contradiction.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2The picture
A posse of youths, who are brandishing staves, as if in sport or strife. It is mimic warfare, and hereto correspond the
Older readings
Success in financial speculation. Reversed: Quarrels may be turned to advantage.
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.