Your present position. This card reveals influences, and shows the general direction of the reading.
Page of Swords
Your personality may trend towards the stubborn and opinionated, if the Page represents you in the spread, but it is also indicative of strong analytical skills and an energetic nature. You have a predilection towards identifying the core of issues and accurately assessing your own stance on them. This will allow you to become an excellent negotiator. If the card refers to a situation, prepare yourself to make many important decisions quickly. Trust in your reason and your judgment to navigate these difficulties.
Key interpretations:
In this position, the card reveals:
This portent is one of messages of conflict or rivalry, but such can take many different forms in your own life.
Immediate Influences. This card reveals the nature of the obstacles immediately before you.
Page of Cups
The Page of Cups, if it refers to you in your spread, suggests an introspective nature, inclined towards art, and possessing a kind heart. You may let credit you deserve pass you by out of shyness. The card may also be indicative of someone, likely overlooked, in your own life who is in a position to aid you in pursuit of a specific goal. Although somewhat dependent on its position in your spread, the Page is generally the bearer of good news.
Key interpretations:
In this position, the card reveals:
News of a birth or a message of similar importance will reach you soon.
Recent influences or events in the past from which your current situation has arisen.
Two of Swords
Like crossed blades, the Two of Swords represents a balance of forces. Not necessarily an absence of struggle, but an equal distribution of force in opposition. It may indicate you are in a position to mediate a conflict, or it may instead suggest you are caught in the middle of a dilemma with no clear outcome. The resolution of this state will likely bring peace for you.
Key interpretations:
In this position, the card reveals:
You have a difficult choice which can only be made if you are honest about your past.
Reveals a recent influence or event which is coming to an end.
Ten of Swords
The Ten of Swords is a cause for fear for any who believe in the power of the cards, and you should prepare yourself for whatever it suggests. It is one of many cards which can represent disaster, but unlike the others, this card predicts a disaster which cannot be avoided. It foretells not only a complete failure but an unavoidable one. What is more, the failure will not be small or easily overcome. This is not a fortune to be changed or avoided, only endured. If you stay strong, new dreams can be built from the ashes.
Key interpretations:
In this position, the card reveals:
You have recently experienced a setback at work, or financially. This may have been a firing, or being passed over for promotion you deserved.
Shows your desired goals and aims, and reveals the best outcome that can be achieved in your current situation.
Ace of Swords
The Ace of Swords is, like all of the Aces, the purest embodiment of its suit. In relation to your personality or your actions it implies a strong element of focus, determination, and an intellectual capacity. It may suggest change through conflicting forces, possibly internal.
Key interpretations:
In this position, the card reveals:
Your many efforts along the road will be rewarded in the end.
Reveals a new influence that will soon be brought to bear in your life.
Three of Cups
This card is both a portent of celebration and cause for it. It tells of great happiness in the future for you, and not of the passing kind, but secure joy which will last and be shared with those around you. Commonly associated with the completion of a meaningful project, or, even more likely, a birth.
Key interpretations:
In this position, the card reveals:
You will come to genuinely love your community, and the desire to help other people will factor heavily in your future deliberations.
This card reveals your negative feelings, and provides additional information about how you feel in your present environment..
The Hanged Man
The Hanged Man can be interpreted in two very different ways. All change is a small kind of death, as the old must die to create the new, and it may simply indicate upheaval or change in your future, perhaps beyond your control, but more likely a decision that, for good or ill, you will not be able to turn back from. The other interpretation is one of sacrifice, although whether this sacrifice is small or great may not be easily interpreted. Both interpretations imply permanence, and that you should give very careful thought to the decisions in your life.
Key interpretations:
In this position, the card reveals:
Recognize the old behaviours holding you back, and change them.
This card shows your influence on the people around you, and their influence on you. It also shows how they fit into your home, work, and surroundings.
Five of Wands
The Five of Wands is never a welcome card, as long tradition suggests you will be in line for struggle and aggravation. Pay close attention to the surrounding cards to discover clues about which areas of your life will be subject to these conflicts. Expect them to be rooted in competition, and console yourself that a positive solution is not outside your reach. Just be prepared for the possibility that the victory will come at a personal cost.
Key interpretations:
In this position, the card reveals:
A temporary misunderstanding will bring you sorrow and conflict.
Your inner emotions.
Strength
Strength is the rawest form of power, and you possess it in some form. It is a very positive card if you are fighting illness or recovering from injury. As might be suspected, its influence over you, and the use you put it to, can trend towards light or dark. You likely trend towards facing your problems courageously, head-on, and conquering them through perseverance and will. However, with this ability to overcome life's obstacles, comes the responsibility to control yourself, and this card may be a warning to take command of your own actions or emotions before they damage you or the people you care about.
Key interpretations:
In this position, the card reveals:
The key to your personal success lies in the clever use of force and determination. Use your talents wisely.
This card reveals the final outcome to your question. It's the product of all the other influences shown in this spread.
Two of Pentacles
The Two of Pentacles is, as always, bound up in the forces of change, and of balance. Like its brothers, the Two of Pentacles can mean good or ill, but it as a strong indicator that the status quo will be disrupted. There will be challenges in your future, but your fate is largely in your own hands in the sense that the final outcome depends own how you respond to these challenges. This card suggests your best outcome is one that can be reached through prudence and careful planning.
Key interpretations:
In this position, the card reveals:
Recent changes on your part, and similar changes in your future, will bring you joy.