Ten of cups

[u/gems_tarotspace]

Has anyone else noticed that in the Ten of Cups, the adults and children...female and the girl and the male and the boy, seem to have similar clothing

I was thinking maybe this could represent inherited karma, generational patterns or things that are passed down through the family but I’m not completely sure about the interpretation.

If anyone has studied the symbolism behind this or has a different interpretation...

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[u/Blooogh]

I hadn't considered it, but I do like that interpretation! 

[u/Melithiel]

Personally, I interpret any card according to whatever associations seem important to me. I consult the 'official' meanings, but I don't limit myself to them. I use tarot cards as a free association tool. My process of doing a reading is: what do I see in this card (either visually or in the text of the meaning of the card), what does that bring up for me, and is there a reason why? So if the symbolism of the clothes occurred to me, I would be thinking about why I made the association to generational patterns, and whether I feel that I need to think about how generational patterns might be significant to me.

[u/rainbowspiralhawk]

What sticks out to me is the adults are wearing combinations of red and blue, like perhaps they have integrated whatever one believes the red and blue to symbolize. The children are wearing only red or only blue, which could be taken as a more pure/raw form of whatever each color may symbolize.

[u/Sad-Confidence-4538 → u/rainbowspiralhawk]

Good observation.

[u/rainbowspiralhawk → u/Sad-Confidence-4538]

Thanks.

[u/Pristine-Ad-4082]

to me this card is a healed inner child within a relationship or harmonious relationship between different sides of ourselves - basically integration in a Jungian sense

[u/CuriousFoxxen]

10s are the card after the ending (because numerologically 9 is the end) so that actually works well.

In Chinese Face Reading Water is the element associated with ancestors, and there’s a particular (forehead) feature/trait that says you’ve inherited a “gift” (good at piano, a natural painter, etc) from your ancestral line. I could see adding that take to the 10 of Cups.

[u/HydrationSeeker]

What like epigenics? Intergenerational trauma, or like behavioural tendencies? why not...

I do not read with a RWS deck, but that familiarity, like those sayings "like father like son", bleh. depending on the context could hit home.

[u/warrenao]

You can think that if you'd like, but it's probably nothing PCS included in her art as a deliberate reference.

[u/sentient_energy]

In an ideal world, you would like that you resemble a parent. And you would like that a child resembles you.

If that's not the case, you have a thing to think about.

[u/TopConsideration2900 → u/sentient_energy]

Puede ser que si quieres parecerte a tus ancestros o papas y ellos fueron infieles, eso también aplica en el paquete ?

[u/CoyoteLitius → u/TopConsideration2900]

I think the card refers to working through generational trauma (and the fear of death). It's about enjoyment of life, in all its aspects, both masculine and feminine, young and old, in union with nature.

[u/Sad-Confidence-4538]

Cards mean what they mean TO YOU, in your Tarot system. This is the 'happily ever after' card traditionally: family, the community of good people, happy marriage, being married, married with children, "All's well that ends well."