The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Wands
TenA man oppressed by the weight of the ten staves which he is carrying. Divinatory Meanings: 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. Reversed: Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their
analogies.