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Minor Arcana · Suit of Pentacles · Number card
Ten · Pentacles
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightFamily and homeLasting foundationsLegacy
↓ ReversedFamily strainTaking chancesShaken foundations
What it means
↑ Upright
Three generations under one archway, the dogs at the old man's hand, the house and its lands behind: security that outlasts a single life. The old reading is family matters, lineage and the family home. Look to what you are building that others can live in — a home, a household's habits, a store of knowledge — and tend it with the long view.
↓ Reversed
The house stands, but what holds it is shaken: a quarrel over what the family owns, a stake placed on luck, an old arrangement no longer fair to everyone in it. Chance and loss belong here, though Waite allows the card can also mean a gift. Bring expectations into the open before resentment settles, and keep what the family depends on well away from games of chance.
Ten is the full measure, and in Pentacles it is wealth become a home that lasts for generations. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows an old man in a patterned robe seated at the gate of an estate with two dogs, while a couple and a child stand under the archway. Ten pentacles are laid over the scene in the pattern of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and the coat of arms on the arch speaks of lineage.
Upright
Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.
Reversed
Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard; sometimes gift, dowry, pension.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.