Ten of Pentacles
The Ten of Pentacles is the card of a family gathered at the gate of their home. Readers traditionally take it as legacy, family and lasting foundations, and Waite gives it gain, family matters and the house where a family lives.
- Suit
- Pentacles (Minor Arcana)
- Golden Dawn
- Mercury in Virgo
- Upright
- legacy, family, lasting foundations
- Reversed
- family tension, instability
Upright
Generations share this scene. Readers see the ten as the long view of material life: what a family keeps, passes on and builds over time, whether that is property, traditions or values. Waite connects it to the family abode and its records. The Golden Dawn assigned it Mercury in Virgo. Many readers use it to ask what someone hopes to leave behind.
Reversed
Inheritance can divide as well as unite. Readers take the reversed ten as family tension or instability in a household, perhaps quarrels over money or a foundation that feels less secure than it looks. It points to what needs repair among the people involved.
In love and at work
Long commitment sits at the heart of love readings with this card: marriage, blended families, shared homes and the relatives who come with them. At the office or in a family business, readers see established institutions and long-term plans. The card speaks to stability as a value to reflect on, not to wealth arriving on cue.
In the picture
An old man in a richly patterned robe sits beneath an archway, resting a hand on one of two white dogs. Beyond the arch, a man and a woman stand together with a small child. Ten pentacles are laid over the scene in the pattern of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Coats of arms hang on the arch, and a house rises behind them.
In a Caelumia profile
When Ten of Pentacles comes up upright in a Caelumia reading, it counts toward these themes for that day, alongside the rest of the profile: Stability, Devotion, Discipline.
Sources
- A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910). Waite's own guide to the deck he designed with Pamela Colman Smith, with each card's divinatory meanings.
- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Book T: The Tarot (1890s, published by Israel Regardie in The Golden Dawn (1937 to 1940)). The source of the planetary, zodiac and elemental attributions of the cards.
Updated September 28, 2026.
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