A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of temporary durance than of irretrievable bondage.
the plate, in waite's words · the painted card will hang here in time
In divination
Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.
Reversed:Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.
The library's note
A woman stands bound and blindfolded, fenced in by the eight swords the card names for her, and Waite is careful to draw one boundary around the image: this is "temporary durance," not permanent bondage. Bad news, crisis, and conflict fill his compiled reading of it, censure and sickness among the rest, though the suit leaves open, in his own qualifying phrase, that this confinement has an end.
a young page · the keeper's voice pass on the note is still to come