Ten of Spades

Tens of Spades can be extreme materialists and real workaholics. If so, their personal life and they themselves suffer first of all. The point is that home and family are no less important to the Ten of Spades than work. What exactly the Ten of Spades will focus its main attention on depends only on itself, but, as a rule, it is tormented by a conflict between these two spheres of life. For Ten of Spades women it is especially hard to keep a balance between family life and career. The fate of the Ten of Spades is clearly influenced by spiritual forces, and this can help it master its abilities in full and use them for the good of other people. But people with this Birth Card are also characterised by a strong pull towards material achievements, which may limit their horizons and potential for development. Nevertheless, belonging to the Spade suit, they are quite able to overcome material attachments thanks to spiritual insights. Tens of Spades may show indecision in love and questions of marriage, connected with fear of poverty. If they apply the strength granted to them wrongly, they will face many problems in personal life. And yet these people are capable of great and boundless spiritual love. If they turn to the higher side of their nature and listen to the voice of intuition, they will be able to achieve everything they desire. Both Karma Cards of the Ten of Spades are under the influence of Neptune in the Life Spread. This creates a tendency to get too carried away with some one pursuit. Combined with the drive and diligence of the Ten of Spades, this gives the danger of extreme maximalism and going to extremes — in both good and evil. Still, Tens of Spades are able to learn much from experience. Losses await the Ten of Spades in life that will remind it of the need to be able to free itself from personal attachments to ideas and to its habitual way of life. Having coped with this task, the Ten of Spades reaches the heights of spiritual consciousness, in which its mission in our world partly consists. Relationships of the Ten of Spades with other people Representatives of this card often live through an inner conflict between devotion to work and love for family. Extremely ambitious and inventive in professional life, these people may show indecision in love, which leads them into trouble. Often they simply do not fully understand what they want in love relationships, or they constantly come across partners unable to devote themselves fully to sincere love. In both cases the result is the same: the romantic life of the Ten of Spades proves chaotic and changeable. Often a break with the latest partner also entails financial problems, after the resolution of which the Ten of Spades still remains the loser. Moreover, Tens of Spades are not very self-confident where love affairs are concerned. This is indicated by the Three of Diamonds as the Venus Card. They must cope with this problem too in order to achieve true happiness in love. For this reason the Ten of Spades often makes a successful marriage only in the later years of life. Like the TWO OF SPADES and the Eight of Diamonds, who have to solve a similar problem (with the Three of Hearts), the Ten of Spades must answer many questions for itself before it gets the chance to establish a happy partnership. But the basis of its love karma is not bad, so nothing seriously prevents the Ten of Spades from entering a good marriage. Tens of Spades are generous and loving people. They simply need to find a balance between the striving for family life and the professional ambitions inherent in them from birth.

Compatibility of the Ten of Spades with other birth cards

Ten of Spades men can make successful marriages with Club women. Ten of Spades women have a weakness for Heart men and are well compatible with Diamond men. A happy romance with a man of their own suit is also quite possible for them.

The maximalism of Tens of Spades

Tens of Spades are characterised by enormous professional ambition. This card is connected with the sign of Capricorn and the 10th astrological House — symbols of success and recognition. In their striving for career achievements Tens of Spades can be extremely practical and decisive, and many of them achieve the fulfilment of their wishes. The only thing that may prove an obstacle on their path is a hunger for love, a pull towards family and home (no less strong than their ambitious dreams). It is curious how these traits coexist within one personality. Both Karma Cards of the Ten of Spades, so actively aimed at work and professional achievements, are cards of the Heart suit: the Queen and the Four. Both these cards are connected with family and domestic relationships. In astrology the 10th House of the horoscope (Ten of Spades) is opposite the 4th House (Four of Hearts, QUEEN OF HEARTS), responsible for the home hearth, security and motherhood. Thus the Ten of Spades is unusually closely connected with the two main cards of marriage and family life. Such a combination of opposite influences may show itself in its life in different ways, but is always present. As an example one can cite a woman who devoted herself entirely to her career and achieved great success in it. But then longing for home and family took its toll, and she married and had a child. A few years later she again wanted to take up her own career. Many Tens of Spades repeat such a cycle several times, trying to realise now one side of their personality, now the other. Another example is a Ten of Spades man who at the present moment has already lived alone for six years. When asked why he does not find himself a girlfriend, he answers: "I have no time for that now." He is studying to be a doctor and works in the evenings to pay for his studies. But it is visible to the naked eye that he feels extremely lonely. He finds time to go skiing and see friends, but avoids close personal relationships. Once he confessed that his last romance brought him many problems. And now it seems to him that the troubles that may arise in a partnership are too high a price for love. Still, whatever the true cause of his seclusion, he behaves in full accordance with his Birth Card. Now he is in the "work phase", but at any moment he may fall in love and find himself in the family-life phase.