The curtain of illusion has fallen,and there you are on stage. The audience sees through you. They’re laughing,sneering,booing,pointing at you and throwing things. A line snaps and the cloths rip from your body. There is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. In this card,a naked figure is run through with ten swords,as the blood-red curtain of denial falls away. This is the card of harsh reality. Recognize the devastating end of your illusions. How have you been deceiving yourself? Humbly accept this defeat as the beginning of the end of the pain you’ve been unsuccessfully avoiding.