The Ten of Pentacles is the tenth card in the pentacles suit in the minor arcana and represents a legacy, inheritance, long-term wealth and financial security. The Ten of Pentacles is represented by the number ten which breaks down to one, so each number is connected to the energy of this card. The number ten is connected to things like completion, wholeness, success and the fulfillment of goals.
The Ten of Pentacles is connected to the element earth and the planet Mercury, as it’s associated with practicality, being pragmatic, being grounded and tangible results. This card can represent the long-term results of what you’re currently working to build for your future.
The Ten of Pentacles can show that you’re working towards achieving a goal which will produce long-term financial results and success. This card can show that you’re trying to secure your future and set yourself up for long-term stability and security. This card can show that you’re good with your money and with saving your money which helps you to maintain your stability.
The Ten of Pentacles Meaning
This card represents a point of achievement, fulfillment and completion when it comes to building your legacy. Through your hard work and committed effort you have now reached a point of accumulated wealth and abundance which will provide you with security. This card can also represent your financial investments and the return you’re receiving from them or even a windfall of money.
The image on the card shows a family surrounded by ten pentacles and a castle in the background. There are multiple generations of family here as well showing the time it takes to build and grow financial wealth. This shows that this family has everything they need to build an abundant future for themselves.
This can mean that you are in the role of the provider and breadwinner of your family. So the Ten of Pentacles can also represent traditions, your ancestors and family lineage. It can represent a family legacy that you’re carrying on or that you’re creating your own legacy which can be carried on by your own family.
Therefore, when the Ten of Pentacles comes up in a reading it can mean that you’re in a good place financially and that this is going to set you up for success and security in the future. Alternatively, the Ten of Pentacles can also represent things like an inheritance, materialism and overspending. Always look to the cards around it for clarification or to get a deeper meaning.
Upright
Building your legacy, wealth, financial security, long-term financial wealth, a sense of accomplishment, reaching your material goals, inheritance.
Reversed
Loss of your savings, loss of an investment, financial instability, materialism, never feeling satisfied, money over everything mentality, family troubles, overspending.
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