Five of Swords and Five of Pentacles

A hollow win and being out in the cold, which the tradition often reads as cause and effect. The Five of Swords describes the conflict that leaves people excluded; the Five of Pentacles describes the exclusion. The pair is about the aftermath rather than the argument.

Associated with being on the outside of something after a falling out, and with the material consequences of that rather than only the emotional ones.

Read for the person left outside after a dispute was settled, and for the cost of having been right in a way that did not help.

Neither figure in the Five of Pentacles is looking at the window and neither figure in the Five of Swords is looking back. The pairing is about attention as much as circumstance.