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Ten of Wands Tarot Card Meaning and Art Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment

Designation

Ten of Wands

About the Deck

Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment

(aka Cary-Yale Tarot Deck or Visconti di Madrone Tarot Deck) One of the earliest Tarot Decks, the Cary Yale Visconti Deck is entirely gilded, with fine paintings upon it. Like the other Visconti decks, it features numerous heraldic devices. Unlike the other Visconti decks, it features a maid and a lady among the court cards.

Traditionally said to have been commissioned by Fillipo Maria Visconti for the 1441 marriage of Bianca Maria Visconti to Francesco Sforza I.

Provenance

Italy, c. 1441.

Tags

wands-10, ten-of-wands, ten, wands

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Uncertainty.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Difficulties and contradictions, if near a good card.

Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings

Happiness. Indifference. Trouble from outsiders. Slander.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Confidence, Security, Honour, Good Faith

Reversed

Treachery, Subterfuge, Duplicity, Bar.

P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Prosperity and luxury

Reversed

a sea voyage.

Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings

a long journey by railroad, and great advantages therefrom.