Ten Of WANDS
Keywords:
Burden, responsibility, problems, duty, weight on shoulders, stress, obligations, carrying the weight of the world, delays, struggle, restrictions, toil, uphill battle, losing your way, extra responsibility, light at the end of the tunnel.
General:
The Ten of Wands is a card that shows someone who is overburdened. And often it describes a person who wears a lot of hats. Their success hinges upon their ability to manage all of these responsibilities. It is a card that comes around when rolling up your sleeves and doing a lot of hard work is unavoidable, but it also usually arrives when an end is in sight.
You may reach your intended objective, but it will likely be much more difficult than it would have been had you learned to lighten your load and take on less responsibilities and projects all at the same time. Sometimes this long and winding path is just what you need to acquire the skills necessary for achieving your final goal, but more often than not there was an easier way than what you chose.
Money & Career $
You may have unrealistic goals or you have taken on an a staggering amount of responsibilities yourself. If you can’t learn to delegate and stop micromanaging others, you will never have enough time to take a step back and look at the big picture to see what directions to move in next. This can lead to extravagant wastes of time, money, and energy.
Financially, the Ten of Wands suggests you are carrying a large amount of debt and/or that your assets are tied down. If you do not find creative ways to solve these issues you will likely have to bear this burden for some time to come.
Love & Relationships <3
This card can come up when you are too overwhelmed with life’s responsibilities to enjoy your love life. It can even make your relationship feel like it is just one more chore on the list to do.
If you feel like the relationship is being carried on your back and you are doing it all alone, ask for help from your partner. Jobs that seem impossible for one person can be no problem at all for two. If your partner doesn’t help with your burdens, then there is a chance they might be one of them.
As a single person this can indicate meeting someone while working, volunteering, or doing something related to hobby. Alternatively, it can be letting you know you might have too much going on in your life to fully appreciate a relationship or to offer another person what someone in a relationship deserves.
Other Aspects.
NUMBER: 10
NUMEROLOGICAL MEANINGS:
ELEMENT: Fire
ASTROLOGICAL PLANET OR SIGN: Saturn in Sagitarius
ASTROLOGICAL DECAN: 3rd Decan of Sagitarius
TREE OF LIFE PLACEMENT: Malkuth, the Kingdom, the sphere of influence
PERSONALITY:
ESOTERIC NAME: Lord of Opression
ANSWER: No
ten of Wands REVERSED
Keywords:
Failure to delegate, insurmountable problems, beating a dead horse, burn out, resigned to fate, overwhelmed, collapse, breakdown, not up to the challenge, lack of progress, learning boundaries, emotional dumping, shouldering too much responsibility.
General:
The amount of burdens that you are bearing, perceived or real, are decreasing the chance that you will reach your goals. The pressures from what you feel you need to do can be incredibly oppressive and counterproductive. This card is advising you to lighten your load. Letting go of things can be hard to do when you feel like you need to keep going to prove something or when you don’t want to let others down, but sometimes cutting weight is the only thing that saves the ship from sinking.
Money/Career $
Reversed this another example of a card that could be one of two opposite things. This may suggest a period of hard work and toil may be nearing an end. This can be due to finally offloading some of your responsibilities or because you’ve collapsed under the weight and no longer have to support it.
On the flip side it can show that you are being forced to carry too many things and never have a free moment. If this is the case, things will likely ease up sooner than later. Put on a good face, this too shall pass.
Love / Relationships <3
The reversed Ten of Wands can be two things that seem opposite. Either the workload you are carrying keeps you from having any real personal life, whether that is by design because you are avoiding your partner and/or because you are unwilling to slow down and make space for them in your life. Or alternatively, you are finally beginning to let your partner help you, letting go of some of your burdens, and making some space for your relationship to flourish again.
As a single person it can show you dropping some of your responsibilities, costs, or emotional hang ups to free up some space for dating.