44-Nine of Cups – Reversed Golden Deck

When reversed, the Nine of Cups suggests an excessive focus on material pleasures and conspicuous consumerism. Such superficial behavior makes you come across as smug and complacent. Success can be a two-edged sword: it can grant all your wishes, but it can also turn you into a grown-up version of an egocentric spoiled child.

Keywords Reversed: Vanity, conceit, egotism, pomp, pageantry, complacency, unfulfilled desires, superficiality, materialism, overindulgence, reckless generosity, smugness, self-satisfaction, spoiled by success.

Timing: 10 Pisces–20 Pisces. Tropical, 1 March–10 March. Sidereal, 24 March–2 April.
Astrology: The expansive benefic Jupiter (dignified) in the second decan of watery Pisces, realm of the Prince of Cups (Fire of Water) and the dreamy Moon (Pisces). Jupiter is linked to the Wheel of Fortune.
Number Symbolism: 9 – the final single digit, culmination, fruition, attainment.

Mathers: Victory, advantage, success, triumph, difficulties surmounted; (R) faults, errors, mistakes, imperfections.

When Nine of Cups is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If Nine of Cups is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Nine of Cups is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for Nine of Cups using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.

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Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot: As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. The images that appear on modern tarot cards are evocative of archetypal human conundrums, complex feeling states, and common life situations. Because the tarot is so effective at stimulating our intuition, it is a wonderful tool for brainstorming, shifting perspective, generating novel ideas, and developing creative solutions. If you are interested in using the tarot as a tool to enhance creativity, the following three books are highly recommended:

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: The spiteful cards myth: you can only own one deck, the one you use for reading. Keeping other decks in the house will make your preferred deck jealous, and out of spite, it won’t give you good readings anymore.

Complete Book of Tarot: The power of the tarot lies in the fact that each card represents an archetypal situation all of us may have experienced at some point in our lives. By creating a forum that allows the reader and querent to meditate jointly on these archetypes, a good tarot reading almost always touches on issues of great personal significance, and, just as in the story of the Hasidic rabbi, has the potential to heal.

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Tarot Triumphs: It is always up to you whether you agree to read the Tarot for another person or not. We’ll investigate the ethics and safe practices of divination more fully in chapter eight, but right at the start here, it’s a good basic premise on which to found your practice.