Five of Wands and Five of Cups

Scrappy conflict and real grief, which the tradition reads as disproportionate to each other on purpose. The Five of Wands is friction without malice, five people with staves and no injuries. The Five of Cups is somebody standing over what has actually spilled. The pair is about arguing while grieving.

Associated with friction that is not about what it appears to be about. Read as loss expressing itself as irritability, which the pair treats sympathetically.

Petty conflict in a team where something real has been lost: a person, a project, a direction. Frequently read after a departure.

Two cups are still standing behind the figure in the Five of Cups and he has not turned round. The Five of Wands is noise; the grief is the reading.