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The Rider-Waite- Smith Tarot- Ten of Wands, and its modern counterpart, The Modern Witch Tarot-depicts a person oppressed by the weight of the ten wands/staves that they attempt to carry. The image seems simple enough. However, this is a card of many significances making some of the readings hard to harmonize. Simply put, it is oppression, but also fortune, gain, and can be any kind of success of these concepts. The fertile Staves or Wands, actually produce these things. However, it is also a card of illusion, disguise, and perfidy. There is often a great burden to possessions, where one thinks they own them, but in reality, they are owned by them.

Both The Rider-Waite-Smith and Modern Witch Tarot-Ten of Wands card suggests a heavy burden. One person trying to control the Ten Wands as a bundle of excessive weight. This image implies, cruelty, malice, over-bearing force, lots of energy being applied and injustice. Much as a slave forced to do very hard labor. Again a very mundane version of the most complex Western Hermetic Qabalistic Tree of Life Sephiroth-Malkuth (the simplest being Kether).On the Tree of Life, the number 10 refers to Malkuth-the Earth, and it is the most crystallized form of the alchemical element Fire. This is Fire in its lowest form (called "crystalized light"), so it is without a guiding intelligence, thus it is in its most destructive form. It is up to us to give this powerful force guidance, as it is the groundwork of all Passions that have been known to "run-a-muck". The Tens generally show fixed and completed force. This is similar to the Nines of Tarot, in which a matter is thoroughly and definitely determined but the Tens ultimate it and carry it out, ending a cycle.

During a reading, if the TEN/10 OF WANDS is thrown for the querent, it is implied that:

• They must stop their present self-repression, and create a new motion ; or if it shows in the reading that someone or something, is responsible for the querent's oppression, the querent must leave, and change.
•  There is an overbearing strength being placed on the personality that will make it fight for its survival, precipitating revenge and injustice in the process.
•  Will applied to control over other's for selfish and material ends.
• Generosity, self-sacrifice and often disinterest. But caution must be applied once again, as often self-sacrifice becomes Altruism, which is another form of Superiority, Control, and Martyrdom, which become oppression in their own rite. 

• If the Ten of Wands is  reversed , it suggests:
•  Ill will, lying, malice, slander, envy, obstinacy, swiftness in evil.
•  Violence as a form of sexuality.
• Defensiveness and irritability resulting when a plan appears to be badly organized or diffused. 

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