Description of the card:
The 10 swords of the Druidcraft looks a lot like the RWS. A man is lying on the ground, with 10 swords in his back. In front of him, the foreground of the card, we see his helmet. Behind him is his shield. It looks like his hand was trying to pick up a stick when he was attacked…or maybe it is the pole of a banner, it looks broken.
There is one dark patch in the sky, for the rest the sky looks rather clear…in the background we see either a sunset or a sunrise.
My interpretation:
I never liked the RWS version of this card much, it imposes such a dark interpretation on this card that was not there originally.
When I was looking at the card I was thinking…why is he not wearing his helmet ? why is his shield lying there and is he trying to grab the stick…and was he attacked in the back ? Maybe he has made an error of judgement, he may have underestimated the enemy or was not aware where they were coming from.
It looks too late for this guy, but maybe the card is warning us to change our ways of thinking. In order to make a new start with the ace, we first have to prune away what is no longer of use to us.
So the sun could either be setting or rising – before we can make a new beginning, we will have to go through this ending and learn our lesson from it.