Five of Wands

Upright

Scrappy, non-lethal conflict — competing egos, crossed wires, everyone talking at once. Often more noise than threat.

Reversed

Conflict avoided into resentment, or the fight finally stopping.

Its element

Fire — drive, nerve, the thing that gets started. Fire is generous with energy and terrible at admitting when it has run out.

Saturn in Leo — the specific weather this card sits in.

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