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By Sarah Taylor
You’ve achieved a level of fulfillment. Now it’s time to step out of your comfort zone; careful as you go.
This week’s reading is about a culmination of some form of activity, or of an aspect of life. The Tens in tarot embody that sense of culmination, and the Ten of Pentacles represents a material accomplishment — something that has been achieved in the physical world. It might not be monetary, although that is one of the more obvious interpretations. But whatever it is, it is noteworthy.
An elderly man, dressed in elaborate robes, sits with his back to us, his attention drawn to a white dog at his feet, which he is stroking tenderly. In front of him is an archway, and through it there is what I take to be either a young family — man, woman and child — or two women conversing, a child peeping around the skirts of the one who is facing us. The image is imbued with a sense of ease. The old man is free to devote his attention to more leisurely pursuits; the child is inquisitive and playful, grabbing the tail of a second dog that stands behind the first.
There is a playing with perspective here. At first, the man seems quite separate from the group of three, with the archway between them. But when you look at the dogs — one of which is with the man, the other with the group — they are standing close together. In fact it seems as if the man’s hand, and the boy’s, are visually connected through the dogs, as if they are reaching out towards each other. There is a handing over of the reins, implied rather than explicit. A transition from something old to something, or someone, younger and as yet untested.