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Ten of Pentaclesfor Scorpio · Self and Identity

Ten of Pentacles tarot card

"Legacy isn't the question. What you do next is."

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On the card

A man and woman beneath an archway which gives entrance to a house and domain. They are accompanied by a child, who looks curiously at two dogs accosting an ancient personage seated in the foreground. Pentacles signify wealth and ten is a card about the end of a journey. Together this card shows a happy and financial successful scene

Upright
LegacyWealthFamilyLong-Term Security

You've built something multigenerational. A wealth to pass on to those after you-- romantically you have made a home for yourself and are with someone who brings wealth to your life. Perhaps a graduation or promotion are near.

Reversed

You're thinking of breaking out of a comfortable situation-- or perhaps you are thinking too small (think generationally; how will your actions impact the next generation).

Its place in the deck.

Minor ArcanaNumber card
One of the 56 Minor Arcana. They are about what is happening in ordinary life right now. Each belongs to one of four suits, numbered Ace to Ten, plus four court cards.
SuitPentacles · Earth
Pentacles are the suit of Earth: matter and time. A Pentacles card is always, underneath, about the body, the money, the calendar, the actual physical situation.
NumberTen
The numbers tell a story inside each suit, from a seed at the Ace to the full expression at Ten. Ten is the full expression: complete, and sometimes carried past the point it was useful.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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EarthElement
Your body, health, money, and the physical. In tarot: Pentacles.
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Ten of Pentacles for Scorpio in Self and Identity

The Transformer

Pentacles are the earth suit, so the Ten of Pentacles sits in Capricorn. Capricorn sextiles Scorpio, which is help that has to be taken up rather than help that arrives. What it asks for is this: change one concrete arrangement this week. Scorpio is perfectly capable of that, which is exactly why not doing it needs a better excuse. Upright, it is complete, which is not automatically the same as good.

When reading about yourself through a Scorpio lens, the Ten of Pentacles says that you feel like your own motives are worth interrogating endlessly, a mystery even to you (or especially to you), and something you will judge harshly before anyone else gets the chance. This has either led to you becoming very honest about what you actually want, or to you believing you do not deserve it. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Scorpio blind spot in it is the feeling of being fooled, or of being seen as naive, or of depending on someone who will leave.

In practice that can look like a routine that finally sticks, or the body asking for the basics. Whatever form it takes, it is completing, possibly past the point it was useful.

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