Ten of Pentacles Art and Meaning
A man and woman beneath an archway which gives entrance to a house and domain. They are accompanied by a child, who looks curiously at two dogs accosting an ancient personage seated in the foreground. The child's hand is on one of them.
About the Deck
Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present.
Provenance
Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.
Meaning of Ten of Pentacles from the Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Upright
A man and woman beneath an archway which gives entrance to a house and domain. They are accompanied by a child, who looks curiously at two dogs accosting an ancient personage seated in the foreground. The child'Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.
Reversed
Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard; sometimes gift, dowry, pension.
According to Many Schools of Thought
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Great successes and great reverses.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Upright
Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards.
Reversed
An occasion which may be fortunate or otherwise.
Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings
News. Secret intelligence. Gossip. Scandal.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
House, Dwelling, Habitation, Family
Reversed
Gambling, Dissipation, Robbery, Loss.
P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Travelling or a removal
Reversed
ill-luck will attend the step.
Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings
if you wander southward you will find the happiness you have long sought for; a Southerner will sue for the hand of a young girl; a maiden from the Eastward will fascinate you; a French girl will turn your head, for four-and-twenty hours; a Spaniard will assail your heart with passionate vows of love.