At the end of any alchemical process, we reach the fifth element, which is considered a magical number. Five is the number of points in the pentagram, a symbol used in many magic rituals.
What makes five so important is precisely the number before it, four, and the one following it, the six.
In cartomancy, the number five is usually associated with a stage of reflection, consideration and conscious procedures. Whenever a person gets a five in a reading, it always portrays something occurring that needs to be taken with care and patience. We just have to ask ourselves what happens and how we feel when we create something to know the importance of this number.
The fifth number isn’t always desirable, but it’s extremely important to manifest conscience. For example, if two people in love have a son and that son has a disease or dies, that disease or death is a 5th element. That 5th element will force the couple to rethink about their relationship and love. And commonly, when something happens to a son, a couple may breakup.
A breakup doesn’t have to happen because of a death, disease or even lack of children, as when one of the members in the relationship can’t have babies. The three elements that compose it will still be there.
What makes the number five so special is the magic that it brings forth. When a person can’t have a son, this may affect self-esteem, especially in women, and this lack of self-love, so important in our spiritual growth, may affect a relationship, which will just make the process worse. This because, when two people love each other, anything we face is easier than when we’re completely alone.
In truth, the 5th element can’t be bad in itself, unless someone in the relationship fears the transmutation. And so, for example, if two persons are loving each other, building something together, but one is impatient and wants to force the 5th element to manifest without the cooperation of the partner, the 5th element has to lead to destruction.
This situation is very common when a woman wants to force her boyfriend to marry her and he isn’t ready. A wiser woman would look at the other four elements, instead of letting herself go by external influences damaging the relationship.
Marriage seems to be one of the most important topics in today’s society, following money, so I will use both to explain how the 5th element can lead to a positive magical manifestation or negative as well.
If two persons love each other, we are already reaching a fourth element, which means that, if the fifth doesn’t manifest, it’s because they’re failing at the fourth.
In my latest relationship this was very obvious. I needed to focus on my work, stay in one country for at least six months by myself, and my girlfriend needed to travel and couldn’t be alone without me, so we kept having arguments, basically because she wanted to force me to marry her and I wasn’t ready for it and needed time to focus on my work and get more results first.
In our last and biggest discussion, I literally pushed her out of my life for several months, to focus on my books, and after six months apart, despite receiving her calls every day, she found someone else and decided to leave me.
We were both working on our fourth element, which is good, in the sense that the 5th element was on the way. The only reason why the 5th element ended up representing a final breakup, a cheating behavior, is because there was a rupture in the third and second elements. In other words, she thought I didn’t love her, and then, being the second element in the relationship, she consciously decided to leave it.
Conscience is the key word here, as love can’t be perceived as positive or negative without a conscience. It’s the human conscience that directs or deflects the energy brought forth by other alchemical elements deprived of will.