This card was easy for me to interpret just by looking at it (in the original RWS deck), so that when it came up, I could integrate its meaning into my spreads fairly easily. I also knew how I wanted to change and add to the original design.
Like in the original, there are two figures who look like they've fallen on pretty hard times; they're cold, poor, probably sick, exposed to the elements without any place to go. In a word, they are suffering. They also are within the limits of civilization, but alas, no one is reaching their hand out to these unfortunates--perhaps they are being rejected for one reason or another. Any one of those things may be manifested in your life if this card comes up.
Even so, there is hope. In the heart of winter, when nothing grows, snowdrop flowers (Galanthus genus) poke through snow mounds with their seemingly delicate flower heads, reminding us that spring is coming--an end to the despair and sorrow is nearing. And even in the bitter cold of wintertide, there is beauty--in the singular shapes of snowflakes, each completely unique, the only one of its kind that will ever be.
I've also drawn some dead leaves around the snowdrops. At first sight, the brown desiccated things look quite sad and dreary, but it is what they become and come to provide that is beautiful and integral. Leaves decompose to become leaf mold, which can be used as a moisture-containing mulch for plants and as a soil conditioner. Eventually, leaf mold turns into humus after all the worms and microorganisms have had their fill. As a gardener, I add other organic material to my dead leaves in order to make compost--black gold :)
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