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This is pretty much my take on the fives as well. All of the fives have to do with a judgment or decision that needs to be made to resolve a conflict. Something needs to be cut out or discarded. With coins, not enough money to go around. With cups, emotional trauma and mountains from molehills. With batons, pure physical competition. With swords, an argument you can't win.
This also relates to traditional playing card reading, in which fives typically indicate some kind of illness, made more particular by the suit.
I have studied a little Cartomancy but don't recall the focus on illness for the 5s. I only read two e-books and watched one YouTube series, just to get a few different angles and find some satisfying numerology.
Here's some info from my Dictionary of Symbols that might explain my confusion over 5 representing illness or loss, failure or incompleteness:
Five in some Asian contexts is the whole: four compass points + the center.
It's the center of the first 9 numbers.
It's harmony of the first even and odd numbers (2 + 3).
It's the Pythagorian nuptial number, a sign of marriage.
Hermetic symbolism has the five-pointed star and five-petalled flower at the center of the cross, a marriage of principles of Heaven (2) and Earth Mother (3).
Ancient writers recorded 5 universal laws, 5 elements (China), 5 colors, 5 metals, 5 senses, etc., etc., etc.
5 was the Maya symbol of perfection.