Ten of Pentacles: tarot card meaning

In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Ten of Pentacles upright means: Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family. Reversed: Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard; sometimes gift, dowry, pension.

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, 1910

Upright

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

Waite's additional meanings: Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards.

Reversed

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

Waite's additional meanings, reversed: An occasion which may be fortunate or otherwise.

In one line

Gain, riches, and the house of a family. (Esbat's own summary of Waite's meaning and picture.)

Where it sits in the deck

The Ten of Pentacles is the tenth card of the suit of Pentacles, one of the 56 Minor Arcana. The other Tens: Ten of Wands, Ten of Cups, Ten of Swords.

In Esbat

Esbat deals a card of the day, face down until you turn it, and holds all 78 cards in the 1910 pictures with Waite's meanings, upright and reversed. The Ten of Pentacles can be shared as a picture. All 78 tarot card meanings.

Sources

Meanings and picture descriptions: A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1910), public domain, checked against the Wikisource transcription. Picture: Pamela Colman Smith, 1910, public domain. Like the app, this page records what the book says; it does not promise outcomes.

Last updated October 25, 2026.

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