The challenge has to do with overcoming adversity, or it may be appropriate for you to reconsider current plans.

There may be no advantage in traveling this road any longer. Outrageous developments have effectively negated agreements or expectations. It's like the system has crashed and the progress you thought you had made is lost. The lesson in a case like this is to know when and how to detach yourself from a situation. Don't go down with the ship ... he or she who fights and runs away will live to fight another day!

And I love this general description of this card:

The Ten of this suit represents finality, the end of something. As is easy to grasp from the picture in many decks, there is no hope for revival here. A limit has been reached, a line has been crossed and there is no turning back. In some situations this may be felt as a tragic loss, but it often brings with it a paradoxical sense of release and closure. The waiting and wondering are over. There is no more ambiguity. You can rightly let go and move on, as there is no more progress to be made here.

I suppose there is some degree of finality explicit in an image of a man with TEN FREAKING SWORDS in his back.

It was an 8-card reading, and in spite of some of the contradictions that would not happen if I was face to face with a decent tarot reader, I thought it was very interesting and thought-provoking.