Tarot Journey with Leisa ReFalo

The number 10 is an indication that you are nearing the end of the project. Wands represents the element of fire and is associated with inspiration, creativity and careers.

Shown on this card is a man carrying 10 wands. He is looking towards the earth (practical matters). He is wearing a white (purity) shirt, an orange (natural earthiness) tunic, a red belt (passion to finish), green (life and vitality in action) tights and brown (practicality) shoes. His hair is blonde. There are buildings in the background as well as trees (grown up wands), and rolling hills.

The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)

A man oppressed by the weight of the ten staves which he is carrying.

Divinatory Meanings: A card of many significances, and some of the readings cannot be harmonized. I set aside that which connects it with honour and good faith. The chief meaning is oppression simply, but it is also fortune, gain, any kind of success, and then it is the oppression of these things. 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 if it is a question of a lawsuit, there will be certain loss.

Reversed: Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies.

4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana

Ten.–Difficulties and contradictions, if near a good card.

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

SCEPTRES: Creation. Enterprise. Agriculture.

TEN. Uncertainty in the management of the Enterprise.

The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]

Meanings of the Cards

26. Ten of Sceptres.–Confidence, Security, Honour, Good Faith; R. Treachery, Subterfuge, Duplicity, Bar.

Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Sagittarius III

A man like in colour to gold, or an idle man playing with a staff; and the signification of this is in following our own wills, and obstinacy in them, and in activeness for evil things, contentions, and horrible matters.

Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim

Book "T" The Tarot

XXXV. The Lord of Oppression

Ten of Wands

FOUR hands holding eight wands crossed as before. A fifth hand holding two wands upright, which traverses the junction of the others. Flames issuant. Saturn and Sagittarius.

Cruel and overbearing force and energy, but applied only to material and selfish ends. Sometimes shows failure in a matter, and the opposition too strong to be controlled; arising from the person’s too great selfishness at the beginning. Ill-will, levity, lying, malice, slander, envy, obstinacy; swiftness in evil and deceit, if ill dignified. Also generosity, disinterestedness and self-sacrifice, when well dignified.

Malkuth of HB:V (Cruelty, malice, revenge, injustice).

Therein rule HB:RYYAL and HB:AVMAL.

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 Wands Energy, opposition, quarrel.
• 4 Tens Anxiety, responsibility.
• 3 Tens Buying and selling (commerce)