A man carries ten staves in a bundle so wide he cannot see over it.Ten of WandsAn old man in a patterned robe sits with two dogs while a couple and a child stand under an archway of the family house.Ten of Pentacles

Card combination

Ten of Wands and Ten of Pentacles

The load and what it built. The Ten of Pentacles is generations, a household, an established structure with an old man and a dog at the edge of it. The tradition reads the pair as inherited burden: something substantial exists, and somebody is carrying the whole of it.

Together

The load and what it built. The Ten of Pentacles is generations, a household, an established structure with an old man and a dog at the edge of it. The tradition reads the pair as inherited burden: something substantial exists, and somebody is carrying the whole of it.

In love

Associated with family obligation, and with the person in a family who holds the arrangements together. Read as duty rather than resentment.

In career

A family business, a long-established role, or work inherited rather than chosen. Frequently read where leaving would mean letting people down.

The advice

The Ten of Pentacles contains an entire household and the Ten of Wands contains one person. This pairing is most useful read as a question about who else could take a stave.

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