Ten of Diamonds meaning
Ten of Diamonds represents a journey through which you will gain riches and wealth. This card announces that you will be forced to leave your zone of comfort. This change will not be pleasant, but successful, resulting in material or spiritual wealth. In short: Ten of diamonds will bring you diamonds.
Detailed meanings for the Ten of Diamonds
Traditional French cartomancy:Travel, change
TEN OF DIAMONDS
Travel, change, certain displacement. This card has always been considered as announcing to the consultant a rather happy omen.
It tells him that something will happen in his life that will force him to move away for a longer or shorter period of time.
Having on the right a
Spade: A trip that will not be free of annoyance.
Heart: A small matter of heart.
Diamond: Bad travel in all respects.
Club: Travel on business of interest.
Having on the left a
Spade: A change will occur that is no better than your current position.
Heart: A friend’s journey.
Diamond: Visit before the end of the week. – Leaving the town.
Club: Certain inheritance.
EXCEPTIONS.
Between two club figures: Happy change in position.
Near the Nine of hearts: Visit of people from the countryside or another town. (The other card touching ten of diamonds becomes null and void.)
Near the Nine of Spades: Travel to attend a funeral.
Classic American cartomancy:A foreign city, change of locality. It can also mean Gold.
Ten of Diamonds
Like its companion, the ace, which with this card form the only two in the pack possessing this peculiar quality, the ten of diamonds preserves its value and signification, whether it emerges either upright or reversed. The primary significations of this card are a foreign city, change of locality, gold, water, the sea.
As the representative of gold its synonyms are:
Riches; opulence; magnificence; splendor; éclat; sumptuousness; luxury; abundance; means.
When its signification is assumed relative to water and the sea, the synonyms assume both a specific and general nature:
Fluid; humid; ablution; dew; rain; deluge; inundation; the ocean; river; torrent; stream; fountain; source; lake; pond; cascade; falls.
When the surrounding cards designate this one to be accepted as representing a foreign city, its synonyms are:
Traveler; traveling; foreign parts; beyond the sea; homeless; wanderer; wandering abroad; trading; commerce; a sailor; ships; refuge; exile.
When accepted to signify a change in locality, the synonyms, in addition to preservation of its original meaning of a mere change in domicile, or habitation, are inferentially extended to embrace a wider scope, such as:
Departure; displacement; journey; pilgrimage; peregrination; steps; motion; visits; excursions; incursions; emigration; immigration; transmigration; flight; tour; rotation; circulation; deportation; rout; defeat; overthrow; bewilderment; disconcert; to break one’s allegiance; desertion; disinheritance; alienation; alien; a foreigner; houseless.
It will be seen that with the varied significations which can be given to this card, it is one of the most important in the pack.
Conservative British cartomancy:Possessions
Ten of diamonds as Master-Card means a valuable Possession.
Influenced by like suit, is concerned one intrinsically of value, as jewels, money or plate, a house or estate.
By a Heart, a Secret: a Marriage.
By a Club, the aforesaid or another Possession will be (or has been) won by special exertions of the Querist’s abilities, or so to be kept.
By a Spade, it is endangered.
Sibylle des salons cartomancy :Journey
10 of diamonds Card title – Journey
Journey; change of business or job position.
If reversed – Dangerous and risky travel or change of job. Traps and deceits.
The American (Rider-Waite) tarot :Gain, Riches
PENTACLES. TEN.
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. The child’s hand is on one of them.
Divinatory Meanings: Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.
Reversed: Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard; sometimes gift, dowry, pension.
Ten of Diamonds meaning in a card spread. Try the original Cardarium readings.
Cartomancy is never based on the interpretation of a single card. It is the interplay of the cards that creates the most interesting insights.
Go ahead and try one of the card readings below.
If you get the 10 of diamonds on the first go – that’s a sign of good luck. Think of it as a positive omen for change in your life.
A day without love is a year of emptiness… Check out your current standing with a Free Tarot Love Reading. It is good for people who appreciate the classic Rider Tarot presented in an accessible way.
If you know what you are doing, try the Free Card Spirits oracle. The unstable arcana spirits dwell in the beliefs of the consultant. If your belief is strong enough, they might help you in many ways – for example – conceive a baby, seduce a lover or curse an enemy. It is a dangerous kind of cartomancy, so it is not for the beginners.
Interesting ten of diamonds card images (for some extra flavor cartomancy)
Fine lithography card from the XIXth century
This gorgeous 10 of diamonds card is from a vintage Dondorff deck “Vier Erdteile”.
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Classic 1930's
Good old classic feel card from 1930’s patience deck that brings memories and warmth of many hands that touched it over the year.
Evil and dark feel (good for cursing cartomancy)
If you open this card in a reading, no doubt your enemies will be caught like flies in a spider net. This card comes from a weird, but vary flavorful deck of evil force russian fairy tales.
War of roses original design card from old good England
Flovers should be gentle and romantic, right? This deck is not about niceties, it is about a conflict. I would use it for cartomancy readings on break-ups, career change and business issues.
