5, n.All

5 is geometrically, the pentagram, or the five-pointed star.

5 is suggestive of the four limbs of the body plus the head which controls them, and likewise the four fingers plus the thumb.

5 is the number expressing sufficiency, or the growth of unity within itself.

5 is a number which often occurs in animate nature, and hence its triumphant growth corresponds to the burgeoning of spring. It signifies the organic fullness of life as opposed to the rigidity of death. There is an erotic sense to it as well.