Ten of Pentacles

Upright

legacy · stability · inheritance

Wealth in the widest sense: household, lineage, something that outlasts you.

Reversed

family strain · short-term thinking · unstable ground

Long-term security traded for now, or a family structure carrying an unpaid debt.

Why this astrology

The pips two through ten map onto the thirty-six decans, ten degrees of the zodiac each, so Ten of Pentacles is mercury in virgo · third decan — a planet working through a particular third of a sign. Aces are the root of their element and the courts carry it as temperament.