正位关键词
- 超载
- 一肩挑尽
- 行至终点
- 成功的重负
- 承诺成堆
逆位关键词
正位牌义
一个身影一次抱起十根权杖，脸埋进柴捆。权杖十是出了体重问题的成功：事业长大了、生活填满了，所有的好与所有的重，在同一双手臂里。这张牌不问你扛不扛得动——你已经证明了扛得动。它问的是该不该扛，还要扛多久。你离门已经不远，所以要漂亮地收尾，但现在就开始放下几捆：分派、推迟、删除。目标是跨过门槛时，还能抬头。今天就放下一样。
逆位牌义
逆位时，那捆柴要么变轻，要么砸落。健康的一面是释放：交出职责、承认担子太重、发现世界没有你的肩膀也照转。更硬的一面是垮塌或曝光：门面撑不住，难以为继的安排自己现了形。如果你一直一面踉跄一面维持体面，趁诚实还没自行安排日程，先选诚实。也当心压力下的人，把责备连重量一起卸给别人。无论如何，盘点一下：哪些真正是你的，哪些从来不是，哪些可以在下一道门口放下。
古典选段 — The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2
Divinatory Meanings: A card of many significances, and some of the readings cannot be harmonized. I set aside that which connects it with honour and good faith. The chief meaning is oppression simply, but it is also fortune, gain, any kind of success, and then it is the oppression of these things. It is also a card of false-seeming, disguise, perfidy. The place which the figure is approaching may suffer from the rods that he carries. Success is stultified if the Nine of Swords follows, and if it is a question of a lawsuit, there will be certain loss. Reversed: Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies.