The deck · Pentacles · Earth

Ten of Pentacles, from the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck

Ten of Pentacles

GainRichesFamily mattersArchives

Upright

Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.

Reversed

Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard; sometimes gift, dowry, pension.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

The picture

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, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

Older readings

Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards. Reversed: An occasion which may be fortunate or otherwise.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §4. Waite collected these and says they often disagree with the main meanings.

Waite wrote in 1911 and some of his meanings show it. Tarot is a tradition of reflection, not a prediction, and no card decides anything for you.