Five of Swords: Yes or No
What answer the Five of Swords card gives to a yes or no question: “no”, and how to treat it.
Author: Max Raputum, Warsaw
The answer of Five of Swords: “No”
The Five of Swords is conflict and an empty victory, so the answer is “no”: what you are after will cost too much.
What the answer depends on
The answer depends on the price of the result. If you are ready to lose a relationship for the sake of winning, the “no” may change, but you are unlikely to be pleased.
If the card is reversed
Reversed, the answer is “No”. The reversed Five keeps “no”: the conflict drags on, or you cling to the grudge. The answer will change when you let go of the argument.
What to do next
Ask yourself what you want, to win or to settle the matter, and act on the answer.
The answer in questions of love and work
If the question is about feelings: The Five of Swords in love is an empty victory: you won the argument but lost closeness. If the question is about work: The Five of Swords at work is a conflict in which victory comes at a high price.
How to check the answer
Check the answer with three questions: is there “a Pyrrhic victory” in my situation? Is the lack of “conflict” getting in my way? What am I missing if I look through the theme of “humiliation”?
About the Five of Swords card
Five of Swords is a card of the suit of Swords, element air. The keywords of the card: a Pyrrhic victory, conflict, humiliation, selfishness. In questions about a choice or a decision it works through its key themes, not through specific events. The general interpretation upright and reversed is on the page of the card.
The Five of Swords card in other questions
Frequently asked questions
Is the Five of Swords card a yes or a no?
In a yes or no spread the answer is “No”. The Five of Swords is conflict and an empty victory, so the answer is “no”: what you are after will cost too much.
What does Five of Swords reversed mean in a yes or no answer?
The answer is “No”. The reversed Five keeps “no”: the conflict drags on, or you cling to the grudge. The answer will change when you let go of the argument.
What does the answer of Five of Swords depend on?
The answer depends on the price of the result. If you are ready to lose a relationship for the sake of winning, the “no” may change, but you are unlikely to be pleased.