Card 1: This card covers you. It represents the influences and atmosphere affecting you.

VIII Justice
Likelihood that the decision will be the correct one. All things pertaining to judicial proceedings; the decision will probably be favorable. Equity, rightness, probity; truth.

Card 2: This card crosses you. It represents your obstacles. If favorable, opposing forces are not serious.

Ten of WANDS
Abuse of power whether by a government or by individuals. Becoming a burden to another, emotional blackmail. Oppression of the few by the many. Willful disregard of the safety or happiness of another.

Card 3: This card crowns you. It represents your aim or ideal in the matter, that which has not yet been made actual.

Knight/Prince of WANDS Reversed
Frustration, as when dealing with minds less quick or capable than one's own. Rupture, discord, division, interruption. May also betoken intolerance, prejudice and the refusal to listen to views at variance to one's own.

Card 4: This card is beneath you. It represents that which has already passed into actuality, what you have made your own.

XVI The Tower
This is the Fire from Heaven: that blinding flash which in a single stroke alters forever a life or a world. This is the inspiration that compels the poet, the artist, the sculptor who creates at least one masterwork which has, over the ages, a profound influence on the lives of millions. It is also, unfortunately, the inspiration which drove Adolf Hitler to compose _Mein_Kampf_. Hence: overthrow of the existing order, unforseen catastrophe, calamity, ruin - all with the expectation that something new and greater will rise from the rubble. On a more day to day basis, however, I have found that the card frequently signifies communication by electronic means: a telephone call, telegram, email or the like (I suspect this may be because this is the only card which has anything explicitly electrical in its common design, and the cards frequently make the best adaptation they can to a constantly changing world).

Card 5: This card is behind you. It represents the influences that are just now passing.

King of WANDS: Reversed
Severity, strictness, austerity - but always in good cause. May indicate one who applies a stricter standard to his own behavior or work than he applies to that of others. Unpalatable advice which should none the less be followed.

Card 6: This card is before you. It represents the influences that are coming into action now or in the near future.

Page/Princess of SWORDS: Favorable: A child or adolescent with dark hair, fair skin and light eyes *or* a child or adolescent born under an Air Sign who is in some sense a sentinel: hence, alertness or vigilance; and by further permutation, spying, secret service, examination as by one who holds authority; inspection or scrutiny. Reversed

Card 7: This card signifies you. It represents your position and attitude in the matter.

Eight of WANDS
Speed. Rapid development of an undertaking; rewards are not long delayed. Also, in modern times, travel by air; arrival of a letter or package by air mail or overnight delivery (usually in combination with the Deuce of Coins); when Triumph XVI (The Tower) appears near it, the card may indicate the arrival of an electronically propagated message, such as by telephone, fax, e-mail, or news broadcast. In a less prosaic mode, the card is often said to represent "the arrows of love."

Card 8: This card signifies your environment. It represents the influences of your position, your friends, your family and so forth.

Nine of WANDS Reversed
Obstacles and adversity, but the strength is still present and they can be overcome. The idleness of one who will not work rather than one who can not work. Otiosity, laziness and their analogues.

Card 9: This card signifies your hopes and your fears in the matter.

Five of SWORDS Reversed
Weakness, either of physical strength or of will. Otherwise, the same.

Card 10: This card signifies what will come. The culmination which is brought about by the influences of the other cards: The final outcome.

Three of SWORDS
Absence, removal, delay of reunion, contested divorce which may be hard on children. Before the melodrama gets too affecting, however, it should be noted that the card may indicate something as prosaic as a trip on business or pleasure which causes temporary separation.