In divination
It is a card of valour, for, on the surface, six are attacking one, who has, however, the vantage position. On the intellectual plane, it signifies discussion, wordy strife; in business—negotiations, war of trade, barter, competition. It is further a card of success, for the combatant is on the top and his enemies may be unable to reach him.
Reversed: Perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety. It is also a caution against indecision.
The library's note
A young man braces on a craggy eminence, staff raised, while six more staves reach toward him from below. Waite calls the numbers themselves worth noting, "six are attacking one, who has, however, the vantage position," and reads the scene across three registers at once, intellectual dispute, commercial negotiation, open combat. The suit's vitality here holds ground rather than advances it, success measured by an enemy simply unable to reach the high place where this figure stands.