Name: Fortune
Italian Name: Fortuna
Playing Card: 5♣
Polarity when Upright: Positive
Core Meanings: Good Luck | Solution | Transition to a new phase of life
Polarity when Reversed: Positive
Reversed Core Meanings: Slow, progressive transformation for the better

Card Description: Dame Fortune balances herself on a wheel in the sky, pouring out her riches from a cornucopia. Her gifts will reach mortals regardless of their merit.

Suit and Number: Fives in the Sibilla speak of transition. Clubs are a positive, lucky suit especially in a material context, so the Five of Clubs is the card of good luck par excellence.

UPRIGHT 5♣

General: Extremely positive card in all contexts, being only second to the Two of Clubs upright, which represents not just luck but divine intervention. The Five of Clubs upright has the power to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in most situations.

Love and Relationships: it is important to understand that this card does not speak of feelings per se. It does not represent love. It does, however, represent favorable circumstances, lucky combinations of events, satisfaction dropping in the querent’s lap almost unreservedly. Realize that there is no such thing as a “yes card”. Suppose the querent asks if she will reconcile with her ex, and there is a slew of outrageously bad cards whose general sense is that that story is over. If the Five of Clubs pops up, it may just mean that a new, exciting chapter is about to open for her. Always read the card within the context.

Work and Money: Being a Club, Fortune speaks much more directly to mundane matters. It represents favorable chances, recognition, positive developments, strokes of luck, and quite frankly good money.

Other: there isn’t much else to say. It represents someone who doesn’t need to work much to get what he has. Spiritually it shows the answer to a prayer. It is of course a very favorable card for gamblers and risk-takers.

Important Combinations:
5♣ + 4♥ = luck in love
5♣ + 6♥ = luck in your finances
5♣ + 6♣ + 7♣ = a traditional combination of great good fortune in material things and gambling
10♣R + 9♣ + 5♣ = winning at the lottery or some such activity
5♣ + 5♠ = a decisive change in the querent’s destiny which will prove positive in the long run

REVERSED 5♣R

General: the card’s meaning remains mostly unaltered. It’s positive, but drawn out over time. The situation will improve slowly, possibly in a less obvious manner. Also, this card can more easily represent a change of phase in a neutral sense. When reversed, Fortune does not nullify the negative import of other cards.

Love and Relationships: same as the upright, but slower. The querent is on a positive path, and if the preceding cards are negative, it could represent the end of that phase over time.

Work and Money: again, much the same meaning. However, the querent may have to act in order to facilitate the manifestation of the good luck implied here.

Other: if it is surrounded by positive cards, the Five of Clubs reversed can simply represent that the querent’s destiny is flowing generally positive. If it is surrounded by negative cards, then it shows a negative phase. It still kind of implies that it will end, but it also shows that there is a pattern of negativity. There is the idea of a path to be trodden step by step to this card, as opposed to the suddenness of the upright counterpart

Important Combinations:
5♣R + 4♠ = a slow recovery
5♣R + 7♦R = the good fortune comes even more slowly
5♣R + 6♣R + Positive cards = the querent will need to put in an inordinate amount of effort to reach good results, and it will take time
6♠ + 5♣R + 8♣ = in love, a reconciliation that will happen belatedly
5♣R + 5♠ + 7♠ = a negative change of phase

Other Combinations: Vera Sibilla | Examples of Combinations – The Fives