Ten of Pentacles
Secret whisperBeneath the arch, three generations and the coins of a lasting house.
Upright meaning
Upright keywordslegacy, wealth, family, long-term success
Lasting wealth, family and legacy. Build for the long term and for the people who come after you.
Reversed meaning
Reversed keywordsfamily disputes, financial loss, instability, short-term thinking
Family or financial instability. Protect your foundations and think beyond the short term.
About the suit of Pentacles
Pentacles belong to Earth: money, work, the body, home and the slow building of security. They ask what is real, practical and lasting.
Reading the Tens of the tarot
Tens complete the cycle: the fullest expression of the suit, and the end that opens the next beginning.
In Waite’s own words (1910)
From A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, public domain. Original English text.
Divinatory meaning: Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.
Reversed: Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard; sometimes gift, dowry, pension.
The picture
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.
