Western Tarot symbolism
Ten of Pentacles
The main account places a man and woman beneath a house's archway, a child nearby and an older figure approached by two dogs. It links the scene with riches, family matters, archives and lineage. The supplementary list calls it a house or dwelling whose value derives from other cards. The main reversed list includes both losses and gifts, while the additional list leaves the reversed occasion potentially fortunate or otherwise.
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In the sources
The card account
LiteraryThe main account places a man and woman beneath a house's archway, a child nearby and an older figure approached by two dogs. It links the scene with riches, family matters, archives and lineage.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe supplementary list calls it a house or dwelling whose value derives from other cards. The main reversed list includes both losses and gifts, while the additional list leaves the reversed occasion potentially fortunate or otherwise.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
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. Divinatory Meanings:Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 138
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0138
- Original scan leaf
- 144
- Recorded leaf number
- 144
- Current Reader position
- 138
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Ten.—Represents house or dwelling, and derives its value from other cards. Reversed: An occasion which may be fortunate or otherwise. Nine.—Prompt fulfilment of what is presagedOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 152
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0152
- Original scan leaf
- 158
- Recorded leaf number
- 158
- Current Reader position
- 152
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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