Five of Pentacles

Upright

Material hardship, and the lit window you're walking past without noticing. Help exists; you're too deep in it to look up.

Reversed

Recovery beginning, or finally asking for the help that was there.

Its element

Earth — the body, money, work, the material. Earth is slow, and slow is why it is the only suit that compounds.

Mercury in Taurus — the specific weather this card sits in.

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