a Tarot read for a new friend, step one, explain and scary card!

Annual read for a new friend with a detail of the card drawn for May, the 9 of swords

This card appears to be absolutely horrifying. All those swords floating above as she sits up from after a bad dream. Owls hooking in the window, candles dribbling wax down the wall as the hours of anxiety and sleeplessness creep by...

How can a positive spin ever be put on such a spookie 1st and last card drawn for the annual read? Because you know, all distant e-reads must be positive in some way, because you never want to do harm, increase anxiety and fill your clients with dread then walk away from your computer and leave them adrift in worry.

Well, she's saying her nightly prayers or meditating. The owl is a beloved pet, not a harbinger of death and trouble and she likes to stay up late so she can hang out with this nocturnal creature. The swords are actually on a rack, ornamental things, tools of battle retired into art, to keep her from accidentally falling from this tower window of her lovely bedroom above the grain silo( because that's how castles are constructed ). She has everything set in order and all her worries and life's demands are filled away and set in place. She'll rest soon, all is well.

Indicator; Ace of cups
May; 9 swords
June; eight wands
July; 3 pentacles
August; wheel of fortune
September; kind of wands
October; queen swords
November; Judgement
December; fool
January; king swords
February; knight pentacles
March; 2 pentacles
April; page cups
May (again); 9 swords

my spread, my bad photography: