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Nine of Pentacles Tarot Card Meaning and Art Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Designation

Nine of Pentacles

About the Deck

Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Pivotal and canonical, this deck defined a new pattern that would be followed up to the present. I made a digitally retouched and painted version of this deck, which I call the "Vivid Waite Smith Tarot Deck". The cards from that deck, as well as a modern English translation of the romantic English descriptions by Arthur Edward Waite (as appear on the Waite Smith Tarot deck) appear in a cross-referenced format in my book, "A Concise Guide to the Tarot: In Vivid Color"

Provenance

Designed by A.E. Waite and Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. England, 1911.

Tags

pentacles-9, nine-of-coins, nine, pentacles

Description

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.

Meaning of Nine of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck

Upright

Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.

Reversed

Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

A durable fortune.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Prompt fulfillment of what is presaged by neighbouring cards. Reversed:Vain hopes.

Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings

Illness. Sorrow. Accidents. Danger.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Discretion, Circumspection, Prudence, Discernment

Reversed

Deceit, Bad faith, Artifices, Deception.

P.R.S. Foli's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Vexation, hindrances

Reversed

domestic wrangling, or disagreement between lovers.

Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings

a lady (a gentleman) will love you ardently so long as you have rosy cheeks; when the color fads, her (his) love will fade also.