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Ten of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning and Art Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Designation

Ten of Pentacles

About the Deck

Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present. I made a digitally retouched and painted version of this deck, which I call the "Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck". The cards from that deck, as well as a modern English translation of the romantic English descriptions by Arthur Edward Waite (as appear on the Waite Smith Tarot deck) appear in a cross-referenced format in my book, "A Concise Guide to the Tarot: In Vivid Color"

Provenance

Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.

Tags

pentacles-10, ten-of-coins, ten, pentacles

Description

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.

Meaning of Ten of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Upright

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'Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.

Reversed

Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard; sometimes gift, dowry, pension.

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Great successes and great reverses.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards.

Reversed

An occasion which may be fortunate or otherwise.

Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings

News. Secret intelligence. Gossip. Scandal.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

House, Dwelling, Habitation, Family

Reversed

Gambling, Dissipation, Robbery, Loss.

P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Travelling or a removal

Reversed

ill-luck will attend the step.

Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings

if you wander southward you will find the happiness you have long sought for; a Southerner will sue for the hand of a young girl; a maiden from the Eastward will fascinate you; a French girl will turn your head, for four-and-twenty hours; a Spaniard will assail your heart with passionate vows of love.