pentacles
Suit: Pentacles Minor Arcana Element: Earth
Also known as Ten of Coins, Ten of Disks, and Ten of Denaries.
Ten of Pentacles: wealth understood as inheritance, household and continuity. The card joins the earth nature of Pentacles to its place in the numbered sequence.
The card's place in the historical Minor Arcana sits beside its Golden Dawn correspondences and Waite's account of Pamela Colman Smith's image. Each reading keeps the source and deck that gave it shape.
8 sourced claims: 5 traditional , 3 modern
The meanings are Waite's own words from The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. They belong to one influential school of reading and do not exhaust what the cards have meant in other hands.
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.
A. E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith, Rider–Waite–Smith — Part III, §2, The Lesser Arcana — Ten of Pentacles.
Ten of Disks · Wealth
An elder, couple, child and dogs gather beneath an archway covered with ten pentacles, joining property with family generations.
A concise visual description of Pamela Colman Smith's 1910 design, checked against Waite's card entry and the public-domain scan.
Upright, Waite associates the card with gain, riches, family affairs, ancestry, records and the family home. Reversed, it can indicate loss, chance, robbery, risky ventures or an unsettled inheritance.
Waite treats these as historical divinatory allocations and explicitly warns that they vary by context and are not a universal symbolic canon.
In the Golden Dawn system, all four Tens share a numerical relationship with one Hermetic Sephirah.
Book T's formal title, Tree or elemental place, astrological attribution, and characteristic reading. This is the system used by the Hermetic Tree.
The Lord of Wealth
Book T's formal decan-card title.
Earth · Pentacles
Pentacles express the powers of Earth: material conditions, labour, resources, embodiment and practical consequence.
Malkuth · The Kingdom
The Tens bring the suit to its material limit. The process has become fixed in a final form, whether that culmination is welcome or hard to bear.
Mercury in Virgo
Book T assigns each pip card from Two through Ten to one ten-degree decan of the zodiac.
Material gain reaches culmination in established wealth, legacy and worldly competence, with stagnation as its shadow.
A concise paraphrase of Book T. Its dignity method modifies every decan card through the cards surrounding it.
Historical context and places where influential decks or occult systems differ.
One of the fifty-six suit cards in a standard Tarot pack: four suits of ten pip cards and four court cards.
The Met documents this structure in surviving fifteenth-century Tarot: Cups, Swords, Batons and Coins, each numbered from one to ten with king, queen, knight and knave. Occult correspondences developed later.