Tarot card meanings · Wands
What does Ten of Wands mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Ten of Wands upright means “It is also a card of false-seeming, disguise, perfidy. The place which the figure is approaching may suffer from the rods that he carries. Success is stultified if the Nine of Swords follows”, and reversed “Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies”.
Upright
It is also a card of false-seeming, disguise, perfidy. The place which the figure is approaching may suffer from the rods that he carries. Success is stultified if the Nine of Swords follows.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A man oppressed by the weight of the ten staves which he is carrying.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Ten of Wands fall in a reading?
Ten of Wands belongs to the suit of Wands. 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.