Small cards, Wands
Ten of Wands
Oppression
A commitment may have become heavier than its purpose warrants. Examine who carries the load, what can be redistributed, and what is continuing only through habit.
Which burden needs a new agreement?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Saturn in Sagittarius
- Suit element
- Fire
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Malkuth
- Ten-degree span
- 20-30 Sagittarius
Sources
The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 187 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Ten of Wands ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Oppression.
Force directed toward narrow personal ends becomes oppressive, and resistance may exceed what it can control. With favourable surrounding cards, the account also permits generosity and self-sacrifice.
Thoth: Ten of Wands.
Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.