Ten of Pentacles
legacy · family wealth · lasting security · roots
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Pentacles
In a few words
- legacy
- family wealth
- lasting security
- roots
Three generations under an archway hung with coins. Legacy, family wealth, security that outlasts you.
Upright
- Everything
- Three generations under an archway hung with coins. Legacy, family wealth, security that outlasts you.
- Love
- A relationship that becomes a family and a home. Approval of elders; something built to last.
- Work
- A stable institution, a family business, work that provides for years.
- Money
- Long-term wealth: property, inheritance, security passed on. Plan for the grandchildren.
- Myself
- Roots. Knowing where you come from and what you will leave.
Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 262
Reversed
- Everything
- Family money in dispute, a legacy lost, or security that traps.
- Love
- Family disapproval, or a bond kept for status and security only.
- Work
- Instability in the institution. Or the family business as a burden.
- Money
- Inheritance quarrels, financial loss, a fortune mismanaged. Get advice; get it in writing.
- Myself
- Breaking from family patterns. Some roots need pruning.
Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard; sometimes gift, dowry, pension.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 262
The card, as Waite described it
A man and woman beneath an archway which gives entrance to a house and domain. They are accompanied by a child, who looks curiously at two dogs accosting an ancient personage seated in the foreground. The child's hand is on one of them.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 262
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.