- Tarot
- Card meanings
- Ten of Wands
Minor Arcana · Wands
Ten of Wands
Upright meaning
Carrying a heavy load. Waite reads success and gain, and the weight of these things: a card about what you have taken on.
Reversed meaning
Reversed, Waite gives difficulties and contrarieties. A prompt to set down what is not yours to carry.
Symbolism
A man walks bent under the weight of ten staves he is carrying.
- Group
- Minor Arcana · Wands
- Element, astrology
- Not given by Waite, so we give none
Source
Our own plain-English summary of A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1911), Part III §2 (The Lesser Arcana). The keywords are Waite’s own words. Waite’s fortune-telling lists also contain harsher terms; we keep to the reflective readings he gives and never state an event as certain.
Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction of fixed outcomes. This is not medical, legal or financial advice.