Arcana Encyclopaedia

Ten of Wands

Minor Arcana Wands

Correspondences

  • Sephirah: Malkuth
  • Element: fire
  • Zodiac: Sagittarius
  • Decan: 3rd decan of Sagittarius
  • Thoth Title: Oppression

Meanings

Rider-Waite-Smith

Reversed

Keywords: Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies.

Upright

Keywords: 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 l

Thoth / Crowley-Harris

Upright

Whether you are consciously repressing yourself or not, recognize that there is much more which you would like to express, experience, enjoy and celebrate. Dare!

Number 10: Manifestation

Fully materialized, end and new beginning. The element at maximum density — both culmination and the seed of the next cycle.

Narrative position: manifestation