Tarot card meanings · Pentacles
What does Nine of Pentacles mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Nine of Pentacles upright means “Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment”, and reversed “Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith”.
Upright
Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A woman, with a bird upon her wrist, stands amidst a great abundance of grapevines in the garden of a manorial house. It is a wide domain, suggesting plenty in all things. Possibly it is her own possession and testifies to material well-being.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Where does the Nine of Pentacles fall in a reading?
Nine of Pentacles belongs to the suit of Pentacles. 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.