ten of swords reversed in a career reading?? help

ok so i did a reading about whether i should leave my job and pulled the ten of swords reversed in the "current situation" position

i know upright its like... rock bottom, total ending, everything falling apart. but reversed im getting mixed signals from every source i look at

some say its about recovery and getting back up after something awful. others say its like resisting an ending thats inevitable??

for context my job isnt terrible but ive been burnt out for months and keep going back and forth about quitting. does the reversed version mean the worst is over and things will get better... or that im just prolonging the suffering by staying lol

anyone had this card reversed in a career spread before?

i actually pulled this exact card reversed when i was debating leaving my last job!!

for me it ended up meaning that the worst part was already behind me. like the pain was real but i was already starting to heal from it? i ended up staying another few months and things genuinely did improve

but honestly the fact that youre burnt out says a lot. sometimes the card is telling you the ending already happened internally, you know?

ten of swords reversed is one of those cards where context matters SO much

in career specifically i usually read it as "youve been through the worst and now you have a choice" - you can either slowly recover where you are or take the lesson and move on

the reversed part imo softens it. like instead of a dramatic crash its more of a slow realization that something needs to change. which sounds exactly like what youre describing with the burnout tbh

following this bc i keep getting swords cards in career readings and its stressing me out lol

but also i think the "resisting an inevitable ending" interpretation is worth sitting with. not to be doom and gloom but sometimes we stay in situations way past their expiration date bc leaving feels scarier than being miserable

thank you all seriously this is so helpful

i think the "slow realization" thing really resonates. like nothing catastrophic happened, its just been this gradual thing where i wake up every day dreading work and thats its own kind of ten of swords moment

im gonna pull some more cards about what moving on could look like. will update if anything interesting comes up

ok update as promised!!

pulled three more cards asking 'what does moving on look like for me' and got the ace of wands, the six of swords, and the page of cups

i literally laughed out loud. ace of wands is like... new beginnings, fresh energy, creative spark. six of swords is literally moving away from troubled waters. and page of cups is that open, curious energy you bring to something new

felt like the deck was just like 'ok girl we already told you, here's the confirmation you asked for lol'

still terrified but i think i needed to hear it from multiple angles. thank you all for helping me think through the ten of swords reversed piece - it really did help me stop catastrophizing about what the card meant and start paying attention to what i actually feel

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