Lunara · Tarot Card Meanings · Ten of Wands

Ten of Wands Tarot Card Meaning

Ten of Wands belongs to the suit of Wands — the fire suit of will, creativity and ambition. Upright it speaks of burden, responsibility, hard work; reversed, of release, delegation. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's archetype and its astrological correspondence.

Ten of Wands tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
Minor Arcana · WandsFireSaturn in Sagittarius

Upright meaning

“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”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: burden, responsibility, hard work, near completion, obligation.

Reversed meaning

“Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: release, delegation, overload.

The archetype

In the language of the intuition function (will, vision and desire — the fire of becoming): completion — the cycle fulfilled, and the weight of carrying it.

Astrology

Decan: Saturn in Sagittarius. Fire triplicity (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius).

Pull your own card tonight

Lunara reads Ten of Wands in four voices — warm guide, 1911 classicist, depth psychologist and astrologer — and saves it to a private journal that notices your patterns.

Get Lunara for iPhone — free
← Nine of WandsPage of Wands →