Ten of Pentacles
Minor arcanumAlso: 10 of Pentacles · Pentacles 10 · Ten of Coins · Ten of Disks
Upright
What outlasts you: house, name, people
Legacy, family, a house, stability, the reckoning
Reversed
An inheritance that binds instead of providing
An inheritance that binds; family obligation
What the card means
Upright
What outlasts you: house, name, people. An old man with his dogs, a couple, a child, and ten coins spread across the whole card - in nobody's hands, because it is no longer any one person's. The steadiest card of the suit and its last: after it the next generation begins.
Reversed
An inheritance that binds instead of providing. Obligations to relatives, a house that holds you, money with conditions. Sometimes a family where it was all decided before you.
Love and relationships
Upright
Family, a house, a relationship built to last. Meeting the relatives, property in common, children.
Reversed
A relationship the elders decide. Or a marriage where the property matters more than the two people.
Work and business
Upright
A family business, a long career, a reputation working for you. What is built for more than a year.
Reversed
Holding on to a business that was inherited and is not yours.
Money
Upright
Capital, property, what gets passed on. The best card in the deck for long money.
Reversed
An inheritance with a dispute in it. Or money that has stopped a family talking.
The card's advice
Think in ten years rather than in one. What you are doing now, somebody will receive - and the only question is whether it will be a support or an obligation.
As the card of the day
A calm, substantial day. Good for family, the house, and decisions meant to last. Poor for the immediate.
What is depicted
An old man in a patterned cloak sits with two dogs; a couple and a child beside him; ten coins arranged across the whole card in a tree. An arch with coats of arms behind. Not one coin is in anybody's hands.
Zodiac sign and correspondences
Mercury in Virgo - a reckoning brought into order.
Yes or no
Yes
Yes, and for a long time: the answer is about what remains.
With other cards
- Ten of Pentacles + Ten of Cups — home and sufficiency together; the best pairing for a family.
- Ten of Pentacles + Nine of Pentacles — your own and the shared; sufficiency with something following it.
- Ten of Pentacles + The World — a reckoning with something to leave behind it.
- Arcana
- Minor arcanum
- Suit
- Pentacles
- Element
- Earth
- Number
- 10
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