The Ten of Cups as Advice: Invest in Home and Family

Written by Chaya the Medium.

The Ten of Cups as advice asks you to tend the rainbow. Here is how, and what the reversal warns against.

If you want the short answer, the Ten of Cups as advice says: invest in home and family. Put your time into the people and the life that make you truly happy.

What the Ten of Cups advises upright

Tina Gong's the Ten of Cups guide at Labyrinthos associates the upright card with harmony, lasting happiness, family and emotional fulfilment. In an advice position I read those meanings as an instruction: the attitude or action the card is asking of you, rather than a description of what will happen. The Minor Arcana overview at Biddy Tarot is a useful second reference.

Upright, the Ten of Cups advises building emotional security: time with family, repair at home, shared plans.

What the Ten of Cups is not asking you to do

The Ten is not asking you to perform happiness for others.

The Ten of Cups reversed as advice

Reversed, the Ten of Cups as advice says look at the gap between the picture and the reality at home. A reversed card in an advice position is usually pointing at the habit that is getting in your way, not at a punishment.

The Ten of Cups as advice in love

In love, the Ten of Cups advises building toward a shared future together.

The Ten of Cups as advice for work and money

For work and money, it advises choices that support the life you want at home. Advice from a card is reflection. For decisions with legal, medical or financial weight, take it to someone qualified as well.

One step to take this week

Plan one evening this week that is entirely about the people you love.

For comparison, the Nine of Cups as advice and the World as advice ask different things of you. The the Ten of Cups card meaning page covers the card in full, and the Ten of Cups as a yes or no, the Ten of Cups as feelings and the Ten of Cups as timing cover the other questions people most often ask of it. You can draw a card for yourself with the free daily tarot tool. For a personal interpretation, my guide to an online psychic reading explains how readings work, and the three-card tarot listing and customer reviews are worth reading before deciding whether to order.