Nine of Swords

Keywords- crying, great sorrow, guilt, misery, difficult or dark times, dark night of the soul.

Appearance-

The appearance of this card is simple and signifies the meaning directly to us. The figure in the scene is shown on the bed but not sleeping but crying. It seems that she is having difficult times, and is crying alone in despair. There are swords on the wall. The bedding of the figure is covered with shows the pics of all the sun-signs symbols and there are roses alternating between them. The darkness depicts night time, or dark time during one's life.

Meaning-

The card says that you are having the darkest time of your life, you have lot of sorrow that is making you awake at sleep time plus you don't have anyone to share your tears or sorrows with. Difficulties seems to have clouded your vision and you are left no choices except to do with what you have or that too would have been taken away from you. Life seems to have taking your worst of tests and you feel bitter as you dont know what to do in this situation.

There are tough times in ones life only when we are not doing what we ought to do. When we are on our life's mission's path we have everything we need to make ourselves comfortable at all levels physical, mental and emotional levels. But when we move away from our life's path then resources start depleting, and also mental and emotional balance startd dirupting. Life gives us signals at all times, for what to do further. When we are doing the right thing it gives us good signals and when we are doing bad it makes our life difficult. Find out what is it that you are doing that is not right for you to do in your life.

There are always light hints moving in our minds that make us feel that we are not doing the right things. Find out this and start working by making this wrong thing right.
The astro signs covered on the bedsheet also shows that planetary positions are at their worst bringing the worst in your life. And the toughtest of times is now going on or is to come in near future. But the roses aligned alternately with the astro signs say that though there are tough times yet there are still roses beautifying your life. Or this also says that the best of roses(learning to evolve) are going to get bloomed during this time.

The card also may literally mean insomnia.

Reversed

The card reversed shows that there were tough times that you have seen but now they have moved away and a bright morning has begun on the horizon. Your life's difficulties have ended or have begun to lessen now.

The planetary positions that were working against you are now begun to change and the planets have started to work in your favour. The right clarification of the planets that might be signified here would be on the cards surrounding this card, also see the positions where these card lies.
The card depicts one of the toughest times in life of a man, the dark night of the soul which is extremely difficult to deal and brings immense pain and suffering but the reverse says that these times have receded and good times have started or the dark night have gone and new dawn has begun to arise.