The Hierophant and Five of Wands

Orthodoxy and a scrap. The Hierophant is the institution and the received way of doing things; the Five of Wands is five people contending with staves and no real injury. The tradition reads the pair as a dispute inside an established structure, conducted according to its rules.

Associated with disagreement about convention: how things are done, what is expected, whose family. Read as ordinary friction.

Competition inside an institution. Frequently read where the rivalry is real and the rules are not in question.

The Five of Wands is loud and rarely serious, and the Hierophant is why. This pair suggests the structure will hold, which is either reassuring or the problem.