Tarot card meanings · Cups
What does Nine of Cups mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Nine of Cups upright means “Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage”, and reversed “Truth, loyalty, liberty; but the readings vary and include mistakes, imperfections, etc”.
Upright
Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Truth, loyalty, liberty; but the readings vary and include mistakes, imperfections, etc.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A goodly personage has feasted to his heart's content, and abundant refreshment of wine is on the arched counter behind him, seeming to indicate that the future is also assured. The picture offers the material side only, but there are other aspects.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Nine of Cups fall in a reading?
Nine of Cups belongs to the suit of Cups. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.