Ten of Wands

Titles: Oppression; Lord of Oppression
Element: Fire
Astrology: Saturn in Sagittarius, 20° to 30° ♐
Time: 13 December - 21 December
Tree of Life: Malkuth in Atziluth

Symbols/Colours:

the flames in the background of the card have run wild; it is Fire in its most destructive aspect;
the eight Wands are still crossed, showing the enormous power of the completed energies of Fire; but they have lost their patents of nobility; their ends seem more like claws; they lack the authority and intelligence shown in the earlier cards; and in front are the two formidable Dorjes of the Two of Wands, but lengthened to bars;
the whole picture suggests Oppression and repression; it is a stupid and obstinate cruelty from which there is no escape;
it is a Will which has not understood anything beyond its dull purpose, its "lust of result", and Will devour itself in the conflagrations it has evoked.