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

Seven of SWORDS
Plan, design, blueprint for action, all of which should be examined for seen or unseen flaws which may cause them to fail. Theft, probably without violence such as burglary or fraud: once again, a certain amount of planning is indicated rather than the action of impulse. Unstable effort, partial success. A journey by land.

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

Five of SWORDS
Loss due not to the vagaries of fortune but the machinations of another. Conquest by physical strength. Spite, slander; defeat.

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

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.

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

Seven of WANDS Reversed
A caution against indecision and against hesitation to move through fear of appearing a fool, or of causing damage to another; a warning against over-sensitivity. The person whom one fears to hurt may not harbor reciprocal feelings. ===

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

II The High Priestess
The future as yet unrevealed; silence, mystery, duality; the growth of occult wisdom. Hidden influences at work. Another source suggests change, alteration, fluctuation.

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

Queen of COINS
A dark-haired, dark-skinned, dark-eyed woman *or* a woman born under one of the Earth signs who is open-handed and generous. She appears, on the physical plane, to be the Mother in the Tarot; hence: generosity, magnificence, opulence; liberty; and the security one gains from the presence of a warm and loving elder who supports one physically and to whom one may turn for help in solving the problems and dilemmas of daily life. Surrounding cards will indicate whether the subject of the reading has such a person upon whom to relay, or performs that function for another. Also, luxuriant fertility.

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

Four of SWORDS
Solitude, a hermit's retreat from society, exile; rest, enforced idleness, convalescence.

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

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

XV The Devil Reversed
Spiritual understanding, psychic healing. Weakness, pettiness, blindness (not physical only), ineffectuality, indecision.

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

Six of WANDS: Reversed
The arrival or anticipated arrival of bad news; apprehension, fear. Indefinite postponement by another of a project. Also, boasting of one's own successes.