/ 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.
- 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