Traditionally a card of anger and loss. From an older symbolic meaning of a hand holding a knife, the 5 of Spades can denote cutting someone or something out of one’s life. It can also denote a surgical procedure, divorce, quitting, leaving, going it alone, loss, fear of abandonment, loneliness, depression, separation accompanied by pain, grief, sorrow and tears. The left hand, left-handed, the left path.