10. Ten of Pentacles
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Number: 10
Card Title: Ten of Pentacles
Esoteric Title: Lord of Wealth
Numerical Keywords: 10: Sensations, Completion, Consequences
Numerical Attributions: Elements, black citrine olive russet, Soul, Evil
Intelligence: Resplendent Intelligence
Element: Earth (cold, dry)
Elemental Keywords: Physical, Materiality, Worth
Elemental Attributions: North, Winter, Midnight
Astrological Attribution: Mercury in Virgo
Dates & Timing: September 12 to September 22
Qabalistic World: Malkuth in Assiah
Translation of World: The Kingdom of the Material World
Suit Color: Pentacles – Green
Keywords: Riches & Wealth, Inheritance, Completion, Legacy, Birthright, Community, Friends and Family.
Ill-Dignified:old age, slothfulness, dullness, robbery, loss, insecurity, uncertainty, conflict of loyalties
Interpretation: Homecoming, Archives, Gain and fortune, Pinnacle of success. Old Money. Fame but nothing more.
Reversed Interpretation: Feeling burdened by family responsibility. Feeling estranged. Rejecting traditions and family values.
Rider-Waite Imagery
The suit of pentacles is related to the element of earth and covers the physical world, health and financial matters.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
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. Divinatory Meanings: Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family. Reversed: Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard; sometimes gift, dowry, pension.
4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Ten.–Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards. Reversed: An occasion which may be fortunate or otherwise.
The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing
In the Natural Position: 4 Tens = condemnation; 3 Tens = new condition; 2 Tens = change.
Reversed: 4 Tens = event, happening; 3 Tens disappointment; 2 Tens = expectation justified.
The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus; tr. A. P Morton, [1896]
Signification of the Four Series of Minor Arcana in the Divining Tarot
PENTACLES. Development. Money. Trade.
TEN. Uncertainty in the fortune. Great success and great reverses.
The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]
Meanings of the Cards
68. Ten of Pentacles.–House, Dwelling, Habitation, Family; R. Gambling, Dissipation, Robbery, Loss.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Virgo III
white woman and deaf, or an old man leaning on a staff; the signification of this is to shew weakness, infirmity, loss of members, destruction of trees, and depopulation of lands.
Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim
Book "T" The Tarot
XXVI. The Lord of Wealth:
Ten of Pentacles
AN Angelic Hand, holding by the lower extremity a branch whose roses touch all the Pentacles. No buds, however, are shewn. The symbols of Mercury and Virgo are above and below.
The Pentacles are thus arranged:
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Completion of material gain and fortune; but nothing beyond: as it were, at the very pinnacle of success. Old age, slothfulness; great wealth, yet sometimes loss in part; heaviness; dullness of mind, yet clever and prosperous in money transactions.
Malkuth of HB:H (Riches and wealth).
Herein are HB:LAVYH and HB:HHa’aYH set over this Decan as Angel Rulers.
Often the General signification of the Majority of a particular suit and of the particular signification of the either 3 of 4 cards of a sort in a reading:
- A Majority of Pentacles Business, money, possessions.
- 4 Tens Anxiety, responsibility.
- 3 Tens Buying and selling (commerce).
