The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.” — Orlando A. Battista
Long-term stability, legacies security, generational, wealth, enduring foundations
Overview
Material comfort
Some people see this card in their careers, when they’re reaching retirement. It’s the pleasure of being old, out of work, retired and watching the people you love starting lives of their own. You are reflecting on everywhere you’ve been, and enjoying seeing the growth of your family and their own lives.
Sit back and relax, you’ve earned this.
Conversely, since the card is in fact a 10, it doesn’t always mean successful completion. It can also simply mean an ending. The end of your role in an organization. This is a warning to leave before the door slams. You’ve successfully completed your role somewhere and now there’s nothing else to do but look for opportunity elsewhere.
Symbolism
An elderly man sits prominently in the foreground, wearing a richly embroidered robe and gazing contentedly at his family. Two loyal white dogs rest at his feet, symbolizing fidelity and companionship. Behind him stands a younger couple (a man and woman) and a small child, all under a grand stone archway that opens to a stately manor house or castle in the background, evoking established wealth, estate, and heritage.
Ten golden pentacles (coins) are arranged in the air in the pattern of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life (the ten Sephiroth), floating above the scene. This mystical arrangement ties material success to spiritual harmony and cosmic order. The setting is lush and prosperous—greenery, vines, and a sense of enduring stability surround the multi-generational family.
Meaning
Security
After the success your experience in your life, and the world you have created is in peace you will be here. It’s the moment of perfection and gratefulness for all you have been through to get you here. The American dream is here, the wife, kids, dog, white picket fence, a BBQ on the fourth of July and some fireworks and explosives to end the show.
Generational wealth
There is no more up from here, it’s the highest level of attainment. The plateau in your life where you find peace, stability, comfort, and the luxuries of everything you have worked for. This is the new norm, where every day become predictable yet comfortable. It isn’t a bad thing, this is the time to nourish other facets in your life. Start your next great adventure somewhere else.
Enduring foundations
This, is the pinnacle of success; you have everything you could ever want; and you’re not afraid to lose it. This is control of the material world at its finest.
Long-term stability
This card, is becoming that stable, grounded, adult. Understanding your means, and how to stay in them. Surviving financial windfalls, troubles without being set back to the point you lose everything.
Legacies
This stability can be achieved in many ways. More traditionally through fortunes inheritances. That you receive the sum derived from the end of someone else. There could be a settlement coming through, or business is running itself or you married someone who has their own slice of heaven.
It’s time to sit back and enjoy the simple pleasures of life after working so hard. Falling into routine with your house, dog and white picket fence. There is nothing left to do here, for now. This, is home.
Ten of Pentacles reversed
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Instability, family tension, broken legacy, foundations need repair
Overview
Reversed, this card can mean that the family legacy is in shambles.This maybe completely out of your control. Toxicity has infiltrated your family, whether from outside influences or from internal ones and it’s slowly shattering the foundation of your family.
This can also be seen in financial instability during a time complacency. That the financial flow has been disrupted.
Meaning
Instability
You didn’t reach the pinnacle of success that you hoped to in a personal endeavor. What you thought was going to reap massive income, and secure your legacy for your children is falling to the wayside.
Don’t give up hope, time has not failed you yet. There’s no chance in trying again, even if you choose another arena.
Family tension
There’s tension at the family table, the big table. There is a massive falling out that is sending tremors through all the generations.
Broken legacy
Being cut out of the family inheritance is the least of your worries at this point. Whether it was your fault or not, you’ve been completely divided from your tribe. Try to find a way to meet resolutions
Foundations need repair
As the saying goes, hurt people hurt people. Unfortunately you were a casualty in someone’s war with themselves. While you may not be able to change deeply engrained habits, or change perspectives that have never looked another way in their lives; you can break the cycle and choose not to be the executioner in another’s lfe.
