Tarot card meanings · Pentacles
What does Ten of Pentacles mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Ten of Pentacles upright means “family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family”, and reversed “sometimes gift”.
Upright
Family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Sometimes gift.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
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.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Ten of Pentacles fall in a reading?
Ten of Pentacles belongs to the suit of Pentacles. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.