09. Nine of Pentacles
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Number: 9
Card Title: Nine of Pentacles
Esoteric Title: Lord of Material Gain
Numerical Keywords: 9: Fruition, Cycles, Results
Numerical Attributions: Moon, Violet, World, West
Intelligence: Purifying Intelligence
Element: Earth (cold, dry)
Elemental Keywords: Physical, Materiality, Worth
Elemental Attributions: North, Winter, Midnight
Astrological Attribution: Venus in Virgo
Dates & Timing: September 2 to September 11
Qabalistic World: Yesod in Assiah
Translation of World: The Foundation of the Material World
Suit Color: Pentacles – Green
Keywords: Inheritance, Big increase in money, Complete material gain, Increase in Goods
Ill-Dignified:Theft, Knavery, Covetous, Materialistic
Interpretation: Prompt fulfillment of surrounding cards,. Good life, Good Luck, Good Management, compromise for comfort. Solitary search for wisdom.
Reversed Interpretation: Golden Handcuffs, Upset to harmony of home or office. May need to sell house or move offices. Beware of thieves and legal entanglement.
Rider-Waite Imagery
The suit of pentacles is related to the element of earth and covers the physical world, health and financial matters.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
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. Divinatory Meanings: Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment. Reversed: Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.
4 Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana
Nine.–Prompt fulfilment of what is presaged by neighbouring cards. Reversed:Vain hopes.
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
PENTACLES. Development. Money. Trade.
NINE. Equilibrium of Equilibrium. A durable fortune.
The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]
Meanings of the Cards
69. Nine of Pentacles.–Discretion, Circumspection, Prudence, Discernment; R. Deceit, Bad faith, Artifices, Deception.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Virgo II
A black man cloathed with a skin, and a man having a bush of hair, holding a bag; they signifie gain, scraping together of wealth and covetousness.
Picatrix the Goal of the Wise by Ghayat Al-akim
Book "T" The Tarot
XXV. The Lord of Material Gain
Nine of Pentacles
A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, holding a rose branch with nine white roses, each of which touches a Pentacle. The Pentacles are arranged thus
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and there are rosebuds on the branches as well as flowers. Venus and Virgo above and below.
Complete realization of material gain, good, riches; inheritance; covetous; treasuring of goods; and sometimes theft and knavery. The whole according to dignity.
Yesod of HB:H (Inheritance, much increase of goods).
Herein those mighty Angels HB:HZYAL and HB:ALDYH have rule and dominion.
Often the General signification of the Majority of a particular suit and of the particular signification of the either three of 4 cards of a sort in a reading:
- A Majority of Pentacles Business, money, possessions.
- 4 Nines Added responsibilities.
- 3 Nines Much correspondence.
