Your description matches the Rider-Waite deck (http://www.lepalaisdutarot.com/PalaisT/Rider.htm), for what it's worth.
I had a talent for reading back in college, although now I sort of regard the practice as indefinably unsettling so I haven't done it in ages. Anyway, when the outcome card was contrary to the theme I had been building up through the other nine cards, my stock conclusion was that the board indicated the direction of the future and the outcome card spoke of your ability to make a central decision that would either fulfill or confound the destiny indicated by the rest of the board, whether that was a gleam of hope or a single dark cloud in a blue sky.
Forgetting that I know what your question is, I'd have said that the King of Swords was a rival of yours who had fought you and left you in a position of (literal or more likely figurative) destitution. The future seems brighter than the past, with indicators that you have the capacity to refocus yourself and emerge anew, and your friends and family are eager to assist in this cause. However, the final card is saying that you have to make a plan before you can succeed at it.
When you told your reader that you may have doubts about achieving your goals, that really was the money shot like she said because in that light I think that's exactly the frustrated plans that the outcome card is talking about. The King of Swords is beating you, and either fighting back or escaping will succeed, but neither will work until you make the choice and live it. The lack of Major Arcana would lead me to think that this shouldn't be an earth-shattering choice, so the more natural decision is better as long as you make it.
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I had a talent for reading back in college, although now I sort of regard the practice as indefinably unsettling so I haven't done it in ages. Anyway, when the outcome card was contrary to the theme I had been building up through the other nine cards, my stock conclusion was that the board indicated the direction of the future and the outcome card spoke of your ability to make a central decision that would either fulfill or confound the destiny indicated by the rest of the board, whether that was a gleam of hope or a single dark cloud in a blue sky.
Forgetting that I know what your question is, I'd have said that the King of Swords was a rival of yours who had fought you and left you in a position of (literal or more likely figurative) destitution. The future seems brighter than the past, with indicators that you have the capacity to refocus yourself and emerge anew, and your friends and family are eager to assist in this cause. However, the final card is saying that you have to make a plan before you can succeed at it.
When you told your reader that you may have doubts about achieving your goals, that really was the money shot like she said because in that light I think that's exactly the frustrated plans that the outcome card is talking about. The King of Swords is beating you, and either fighting back or escaping will succeed, but neither will work until you make the choice and live it. The lack of Major Arcana would lead me to think that this shouldn't be an earth-shattering choice, so the more natural decision is better as long as you make it.