From Roza’s deck
Five of Pentacles
hardship · exclusion · help nearby unseen
Two figures in snow pass the lit window — lack and lean times; help is close but must be seen and asked.
Reversed, it falls differently: Recovery beginning — a door opening, hardship easing.
For the heart: Feeling shut out in the cold together or apart; knock on the lit window.
For bread and coin: A lean season; ask for help — pride is expensive now.
For the road ahead: Poverty of hope is the deeper cold — the light is nearer than it looks.
A card on a page is a word, child. A card your own hand draws is a sentence. There is a difference.
Every dawn one card waits face-down on my table — come and turn yours. Or bring the cards a full question: the table is there.