/ I started out this post talking about the shapeshifting qualities of 5C. But actually, I think that shapeshifting is a more swift, floating thing that applies more to cards like 8C and 4S, for example. And what we really should talk about when it comes to 5C is a special capacity for deep change, much like Cinderella or HC Andersen´s Ugly duckling./
There are many better cards for great talent, I believe, than the 5 of Clubs. But I´m now in a process in which I discover, at 56 years of age, capacities that I didn´t know that I have, and I´ve come to realize that 5 of Clubs is a card for shapeshifting / rather growth/. For to become something completely different than what you used to be. Don´t get it wrong: most people change to a degree. But 5C may - or rather should, for to take advantage of their card, I believe - undergo changes that makes it hard to recognize them.
Like the kid who could hardly speak, and yet became a prominent actor. "Wear it like a crown" - the capacity to turn your weakness into strength.
I´m referring to the BC, but of course it brings this in in any "positive" position.
How come?
Well, first of all 5 of Clubs stands for change, obviously. Adaptation. The tree that find new ways of development for to become the perfect 6 that it strives for to be.
It´s a judgment card, and clubs is about though and action, so it learns to work in a smart way, inner and outer wise.
In the BC it has help in it´s shapeshifting capacity by at least these cards:
- 3D as Sun card. Basically intuition and connection. Also ambition and motivation. 3D really wants thing to work out!
- AS as Moon card. New beginnings. Reset. Complete overhaul. New form. It´s on the Moon position, so it comes to the person effortlessly. It´s natural, even impossible to stop, it´s how the lifeforce works. Great capacity for to overcome problems.
- 7H as Mars card. A knack for detachment, no codependence.
- 7D as Mercury card. The red sevens are death card, so the transformation goes deep. Giving up valueable stuff is natural for a 5C. You can´t grow into a new shape unless you have let go of the old one. This card works like the osteoclasts in the body, whose task it is to break down old bone cells. As Ernst teaches: Within every seven is an ace, so this is a great card for renewal.
- 5S as Jupiter card. Protection. Difficulties tend to go away. Teflon. / Much like Cinderella and the Ugly duckling, 5C tends to grow in opposition to something. Bad environments tend not to hurt is severely, but rather stimulate their growth. /
- JH as Venus card. Playfulness, a youthful mind.
Of course most 5C get caught on the difficult 7th and 8th position, but those who manage to overcome them gain a lot...
- 9C as the Saturn position: Learn not to get trapped in mind traps. Letting go of idealism really pays off or a 5C. The previous hearts should help them not to become cynical, which is the obvious risk of not embracing the idea of an ideal world.
- 9S as the Rahu card. A 5C that learns to fully embrace his or her solitude, to give up ego completely... Well, that´s the way to moksha for all of us, but for a 5C it´s really spelled out as their way of liberation.
- 2H as the Ketu card. Time to reconnect, but now with no mind making your attached to that thing.
- KH as the Ecliptica card: Readiness to suffer emotionally. Change requires you to do that, of course.
- KD as the JC. No chance to hang onto established values, material abundance etc. An authentic lack of interest in those things. Readiness to die for one´s own experience and values.
- 6H as the Neptune card: This card keeps 5C in orbit. Longing for human connection. That is also a motivator for to change: sixes are about authenticity. We can´t vibrate at our highest and best without being authentic.
- 4C as the Pluto card. Every time a 5C gets dogmatic or believe that he has found an everlasting truth, life is going to make him or her suffer for that.
Finally, let me say that I do believe that this applies to some degree to all fives, but I haven´t analyzed it from that perspective yet. Any thoughts you might want to share...
Staffan