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Ten of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning
The Ten of Pentacles tarot card means wealth, family and lasting security. Lasting security and family.
Upright
- Wealth
- family
- lasting security
Reversed
- Family disputes
- money loss
- short-term thinking
Yes or no
Yes
The Ten of Pentacles is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Pentacles. Pentacles are the suit of earth: money, work, home, health and the things you can touch.
What the card shows
An old man in a richly patterned robe sits with two dogs at his side, watching a couple and a child under a stone archway. Ten pentacles are set across the scene.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Ten of Pentacles is read as long-term security: family, inheritance, a home, something built to last beyond you. It is the settled, comfortable end of the suit.
Ten of Pentacles reversed
Reversed, it is read as quarrels over money or inheritance, or security that is less solid than it looks.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Ten of Pentacles is usually read as a yes. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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More Pentacles cards
Ace of PentaclesTwo of PentaclesThree of PentaclesFour of PentaclesFive of PentaclesSix of PentaclesSeven of PentaclesEight of PentaclesNine of PentaclesPage of PentaclesKnight of PentaclesQueen of PentaclesKing of Pentacles
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