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More Pentacles Cards:
Ace of Pentacles
2 of Pentacles
3 of Pentacles
4 of Pentacles
5 of Pentacles
6 of Pentacles
7 of Pentacles
8 of Pentacles
9 of Pentacles
10 of Pentacles
Page of Pentacles
Knight of Pentacles
Queen of Pentacles
King of Pentacles

Other Tarot Cards:
Major Arcana Cards
Suit of Cups
Suit of Pentacles
Suit of Swords
Suit of Wands

 

Nine of Pentacles

The "Nines" in the Tarot Deck are the last of the single digit numbers. As such, they are cards of completion (as an aide-memoir think of the 9 months of human pregnancy). These are cards representing and achievement about which one can reflect on progress made, and any associated material gains or earnings.

Most Tarot Decks include a simple, positive, happy card in the Nine of Pentacles. The theme of this card is "fulness and fulfullment". Some decks illustrate it with images of a lone figure in a beautiful garden - perhaps a garden that she has created herself..

This card may be interpreted in many ways - especially when it appears as a richly symbolic image. However, all interpretations concern success - either that we are on our way to achieving success, that we should enjoy our success, or that we may have paid a particular price for our success (e.g. become rich but lonely).

 

Keywords summarising the possible meanings of this card include:

  • Achievement, Accomplishment
  • Femininity
  • Luxury
  • Material Comfort
  • Solitary Success
  • Solitary Wealth.

Remember that all of the Pentacles cards in the Tarot Deck have some energies in common. These include, for example, the overall association of the suit of Pentacles with the element of earth and material concerns. For further information, read about the Suit of Pentacles in general.

Some texts include meanings for "reversed cards", which apply when the cards are shuffled in both order and orientation. This doubles the number of possible "cards" in the deck from 78 to 156. (In terms of the probabilities of obtaining results by chance alone, it is not a simple doubling as once a card has been drawn it cannot be selected again in the opposite orientation in the same reading.)

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