Ten of Swords

Overview

A point where something has definitively ended. Not a catastrophe in the moment — rather a statement: everything that could be squeezed has been squeezed. A bottom to push off from, but first you have to acknowledge it.

Reversed

Recovery. What seemed an end turns out to be a passage — painful but not final. Or you keep lying "on the swords" longer than needed, because getting up requires effort.