Ten of Swords and Ten of Pentacles

A definitive ending next to an established structure. The tradition reads this pair as something finishing inside something that continues: the household in the Ten of Pentacles is not going anywhere, and something within it has comprehensively concluded.

Associated with a break inside a family that the family survives. Read as an ending with a structure still standing round it.

A role, a partnership or a line of work ending within an institution that carries on. Frequently read for departures from long-established places.

The Ten of Pentacles is the reassuring half and it is not reassuring about the Ten of Swords, only about the ground. The ending is real; what it happened inside is still there.