About these meanings: the traditional descriptions and meanings on this public reference page are taken from material associated with the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck. Some of the language is historical, severe, or old-fashioned. Slogit Tarot modernises this terminology and greatly expands the meanings, examples and interpretations inside the Arcana Nexus learning course.

Minor Arcana · Wands

Ten of Wands

Card Code W10

Suit Wands

Rank Ten

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Description & Symbolism

Ten of Wands

A man oppressed by the weight of the ten staves which he is carrying.

Divinatory Meaning

Upright

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.

Difficulties and contradictions, if near a good card.

Reversed Meaning

Reversed

Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies.