09. Nine of Cups
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Number: 9
Card Title: Nine of Cups
Esoteric Title: Lord of Material Happiness
Numerical Keywords: 9: Fruition, Cycles, Results
Numerical Attributions: Moon, Violet, World, West
Intelligence: Purifying Intelligence
Element: Water (cold, wet)
Elemental Keywords: Love, Container, Emotions
Elemental Attributions: West, Fall, Twilight
Astrological Attribution: Jupiter in Pisces
Dates & Timing: March 1 to March 10
Qabalistic World: Yesod in Briah
Translation of World: The Foundation of Creation
Suit Color: Cups - Blue
Keywords: Loyalty, Liberty, Success in Everything, Completion, Emotional Happiness, Joy, Material Contentment, Contentment.
Ill-Dignified:Hoping, Waiting, Wish Delayed, Conceited, Vain
Interpretation: Avoid worry by concentrating on ordinary pleasures, treat yourself. Wish Card. A dream come true. Joy depends on how a person uses their wishes.
Reversed Interpretation: Be sure you know what you want before you wish for it. Lack of material goods and money. Over indulgence in food and drink. Short term deprivation and illness. Unrealistic view of dreams and goals.
Rider-Waite Imagery
A man wearing a red hat sits with arms crossed. Behind him is a table with 9 cups on it. The table cloth is blue.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
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. Divinatory Meanings: Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage; satisfaction for the Querent or person for whom the consultation is made. Reversed: Truth, loyalty, liberty; but the readings vary and include mistakes, imperfections, etc.
4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Nine.–Of good augury for military men. Reversed: Good business.
The Recurrence of Cards in Dealing
In the Natural Position: 4 Nines = a good friend; 3 Nines = success; 2 Nines = receipt.
Reversed: 4 Nines = usury; 3 Nines imprudence; 2 Nines = a small profit.
The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus; tr. A. P Morton, [1896]
Signification of the Four Series of Minor Arcana in the Divining Tarot
CUPS. Preservation. Love. Instruction.
NINE. Motherhood.
The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]
Meanings of the Cards
41. Nine of Cups.–Victory, Advantage, Success, Triumph, Difficulties surmounted; R. Faults, Errors, Mistakes, Imperfections.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Pisces II
A woman of a good countenance, and well adorned; and the signification is to desire and put ones self on about high and great matters:
Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim
Book "T" The Tarot
XLIII. The Lord of Material Happiness:
Nine of Chalices
A WHITE Radiant Angelic Hand, issuing from a cloud holding lotus or water-lilies, one flower of which overhangs each cup; from it a white water pours. Cups are arranged in three rows of 3. Jupiter and Pisces above and below.
Complete and perfect realization of pleasure and happiness, almost perfect; self-praise, vanity, conceit, much talking of self, yet kind and lovable, and may be self-denying therewith. High-minded, not easily satisfied with small and limited ideas. Apt to be maligned through too much self-assumption. A good and generous, but sometimes foolish nature.
Yesod of HB:H (Complete success, pleasure and happiness, wishes fulfilled).
Therein rule the Angels HB:SALYH and HB:a’aRYAL.
Often the General signification of the Majority of a particular suit and of the particular signification of the either 3 of 4 cards of a sort in a reading:
- A Majority of Cups Pleasure, merriment.
- 4 Nines Added responsibilities.
- 3 Nines Much correspondence.
