Ten of Swords and The Sun

The worst card in the suit followed by the warmest in the deck, and the sequence is the reading. The Ten of Swords is rock bottom, drawn with the sun already rising on the horizon. Placed with The Sun, the tradition reads it as the ending that could not get worse, and did not.

A situation that finished completely. Associated with the relief that follows an ending nobody wanted to be the one to call.

Associated with a definitive professional ending followed by a better position.

The Ten of Swords is theatrical on purpose. The pairing suggests the situation is less survivable-looking than it is.