Name: Perseverance
Italian Name: Costanza
Playing Card: 10♥
Polarity when Upright: Positive
Core Meanings: Success of an effort | Stable situations for better or ill | Willpower, Persistence | the querent’s hometown or country
Polarity when Reversed: Negative
Reversed Core Meanings: Instability, Disruption, Failure of enterprises | Anger, Wrath | Lack of willpower

Card Description: on the background of the ruins of an ancient Greek or Roman city, a young woman leans confidently on a broken column as the sun rises after a long night. This card, like the Hope card, is a traditional allegory.

Suit and Number: all tens in the Sibilla represent the idea of will. In the Ten of Hearts this is seen as positive, giving willpower, perseverance, realization through toil and hard work.

UPRIGHT 10♥

General: the Ten of Hearts is mostly a positive card. It signifies success, but earned. It never falls on the querent’s lap. It’s neutral meaning is that it shows things lasting a long time, whether for good or ill. Due to its connection with willpower and the materialization of plans through it, the Perseverance card activates the Six of Diamonds, the Thought card.

Love and Relationships: it shows security in one’s relationships. It represents the presence of reliable people whom the querent can depend on. It often signifies long-term commitment such as marriage, and a bond that is deeply rooted in the querent’s life. Relationships of this kind resist through all adversity just as the woman resisted through the harsh night to see the light of day.

Work and Money: the Ten of Hearts can mean attainment through hard work and perseverance, and it signifies working a long time in one sector or for one company. It can mean a long-term or perm job. With negative cards it can point to long-term unemployment. Traditionally the card is associated to the sea and to mariners. It is also very good for merchants and sellers.

Other: psychologically it gives endurance, self-reliance, resourcefulness. It shows a stable character. The person is capable of resisting to adversities. The Ten of Hearts is connected to the querent’s hometown, country or surroundings, depending on the scope of the reading, because it shows where the querent is rooted. It is also connected to south as a cardinal point, to warmth and to daylight. Spiritually it shows rooted convictions and a harmonious relationship with the divine.

Important Combinations:
A♣ + 10♥ = lasting marriage or job
4♥ + 10♥ = lasting love
A♠ + 10♥ + 9♦ = lasting difficulties
10♥ + 7♣ = great realization
3♣ + 10♥ + 3♠ = leaving your hometown or country

REVERSED 10♥R

General: more negative. It signifies things falling apart, instability and wrath, the opposite of a stable character.

Love and Relationships: relationships go south when this card is reversed. It is a card of arguments, anger and resentment. It shows people not to be depended on, and an unwillingness to carry on the relationship

Work and Money: it shows loss due to unpredictable events or due to the querent’s own instability. With cards of sadness it can show the querent feels defeated and may not even be looking for a job.

Other: psychologically it can show either lack of willpower (and therefore defeatism) or an excess of it (anger, wrath, an overbearing character). Spiritually it can mean falling out of love with the divine, resenting it even.

Important Combinations:
10♥R between two face cards = arguments
10♥R + 3♥R = overbearing, wrathful individual
10♥R + 7♣R = failure of dreams
10♥R + 10♠ + A♠ = violence (+8♠ against oneself)
10♥R + 4♠U/R = feeling defeated

Other combinations: Vera Sibilla | Examples of Combinations – The Tens