What is Ten of Wands advising?

Overwhelm, overcommitment, carrying more than is yours.

The goal is in sight and you are too loaded to enjoy reaching it, which is the particular cruelty of this card: nothing has gone wrong, and that is why it is so hard to justify complaining.

In an advice position it is direct: delegate or drop something. Not reorganise, not work harder, not get up earlier. Reduce the load.

Putting the load down, delegating, or refusing to take on more.

The good reading is genuinely good and usually follows a long upright period: somebody finally saying no, or asking, or letting a thing fail that was never theirs.

Sometimes collapse under the weight, or offloading responsibility onto somebody else unfairly, which is the same relief obtained at another person's expense.

Upright: burden, overwhelm, overcommitment, responsibility, strain

Reversed: delegating, release, collapse, shirking

• What am I carrying that belongs to someone else?
• If I could drop exactly one thing, what would it be, and why have I not?