Ten of Stones:
On Wealth, Responsibilities, and legacy
Your energy has drawn you to the Purposeful Panda, a family of giant pandas playing around a carefully-balanced Citrine stone structure. Pandas often symbolize peace, balance, harmony and luck, as it’s only with great fortune that one comes across an endangered panda. Citrine most often symbolizes abundance and prosperity. Meanwhile, Tens represent the beginning and end of a cycle, and Stones hold the power of wealth and resources. Drawing the Ten of Stones is an indication that you’ve recently completed a project and are ready to move into the next phase or chapter of your creative journey. It's time to focus on the bigger picture: on how your legacy and reputation. How do you want to be known? What do you want to be remembered for? What responsibilities do you have and how can you best meet them? In what ways are you most wealthy, and how can you pass that wealth on to loved ones and those around you? It’s possible a close friend or family member needs your financial support, your advice, or your network right now, and you should give it. After all, what’s the point of success if you can’t share it with those around you? Rest assured that you have everything you need to make a positive impact on your family, your community and the world.
If you're feeling blocked
The Ten of Stones is asking you to think about your legacy and the impact you want to have on the world and those around you. Sometimes success can be road paved in gold, but what a waste of gold would that be? You can spend your riches on material goods and status symbols and fall into a trap of always needing and demanding more and better, better and more — which leads directly to a state of never having enough no matter how much you have. You’ve taken all the right steps so far, but do you really want the life you’re living? Would you be happier if you sold it all and hit the road? The Ten of Stones might be an indication that, instead of a project ending with success, yours has ended in some kind of failure. You’ve suffered a major financial setback, an investment went south, a major client decided to go elsewhere. It’s okay. Failures are the stepping stones to success. You didn’t lose the lessons you learned, the experiences you gained, or your life calling. Dust yourself off and get ready to start again with the next project or pursuit.
Creativity Exercises
Write a poem that talks about how you hope to be remembered in 40 years
Create something inspired by your parents’ coming-of-age story and how it resulted with you
Get inspired by pandas: make a design or pattern in just black and white
Find a creative way to honor your most recent failure, however long ago it was: make a stepping stone, a tombstone, an urn, or a trophy that memorializes the time, energy and passion you put into it.
