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Ten of Wands Tarot Card Meaning
The Ten of Wands tarot card means burden, responsibility and overwork. Carrying too much.
Upright
- Burden
- responsibility
- overwork
Reversed
- Putting it down
- delegating
- collapse under the load
Yes or no
No
The Ten of Wands is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Wands. Wands are the suit of fire: energy, ambition, work you care about and the drive to get things moving.
What the card shows
A man bends forward under a heavy bundle of ten wands, carrying them toward a town in the distance.
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 Wands is read as carrying too much. The load may be work, duty or other people's problems. The goal is in sight, and the card asks what you could put down or share.
Ten of Wands reversed
Reversed, it is read as letting go of a burden, learning to delegate, or being crushed by trying to do it all.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Ten of Wands is usually read as a no, often in the sense of not now or not this way. 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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