Waite–Smith, Wands
Ten of Wands
What you can see
A bent figure carries a bundle of ten long staffs toward distant buildings, with the face obscured by the load.
What Waite says
Waite names oppression as the main thread but allows that success and gain can themselves become the burden. He openly acknowledges that the meanings collected for this card cannot all be reconciled.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 178 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.