Ten of Wands
Upright meaning
Too much responsibility carried at once. Commitment has become a burden or left too little room to breathe.
Something to consider
You may be carrying more than your share. Name one task you can delegate, postpone, or stop doing instead of treating exhaustion as proof of commitment.
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Waite: the card
A man oppressed by the weight of the ten staves which he is carrying.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: divinatory meaning
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.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: reversed
Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Mathers: meaning
26. Ten of Sceptres.-Confidence, Security, Honour, Good Faith; R. Treachery, Subterfuge, Duplicity, Bar.
Source: The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888) · Public domain