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
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 the card reading 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.
If you are looking for more personal and intimate cartomancy experience – try Spirits in My Head oracle. Be careful though, because the unstable arcana cards might be nasty and sometimes gang up on you. They are like human beings – some are nice and friendly, some are jealous and mean. Some are outright evil. That’s how those cards are, because that’s how life is.