CUPS · IX
Nine of Cups
Satisfaction. A wish that landed in the body. Enjoy the banquet without turning the nine cups into a personality of having.
- ELEMENT
- water
- NUMBER
- Nine — near-full: the satisfied banquet, nine cups like a back wall of plenty.
- SYMBOLS
- a seated figure with arms crossed in ease, a smile that has eaten · nine cups arched behind like a trophy wall · a wooden bench, the body allowed to sit in its result · a blue robe, feeling housed as comfort
UPRIGHT
- +pleasure without apology
- +a goal met in the realm of feeling or hospitality
- +generosity that comes from being full
- −smugness, the display of cups as a score
- −comfort used to stop growing
- −a wish granted that cost someone offstage
- IN LOVE
- Contentment, sensual ease, a bond that likes its life. Share the table. Watch for self-satisfaction that stops listening.
- IN WORK
- A win, a raise, a show that sold. Taste it. Then ask whether the wall of cups is a shopfront.
- IN SELF
- You may actually be well. Let that be unironic. Pride is allowed; contempt is not required.
REVERSED
The banquet is hollow, private, or overdone — a wish that did not nourish, or plenty that will not be shared.
- Blocked — the upright current exists and is dammed.
- Excess — the current is overplayed.
- Internalized — the drama is inner rather than worldly.
Blocked Nine of Cups is a wish that curdled. Inner Nine is secret satisfaction. Excess Nine is appetite as a wall.
- PAIRS WELL WITH
- The EmpressThe SunThree of CupsKing of Pentacles
WHAT WE WILL NOT SAY ABOUT THIS PLATE
- your wish will come true
- you have everything, stop wanting
- this is greed