Six of Swords

Upright

transition · passage · leaving trouble

Moving out of rough water, carrying what matters and not much else.

Reversed

stuck · unfinished exit · return

The crossing stalled, or made without leaving the trouble behind.

Why this astrology

The pips two through ten map onto the thirty-six decans, ten degrees of the zodiac each, so Six of Swords is mercury in aquarius · second decan — a planet working through a particular third of a sign. Aces are the root of their element and the courts carry it as temperament.