The 9s ~
To appreciate, to
persevere, to defend, to achieve
Pentacles
~ It’s
all about learning to appreciate what we have and where we are in life. It’s a sense of personal satisfaction.
Abundance,
self-satisfaction, contentment, self-confidence, grounding, appreciation
9/Pentacles ~ The figure on this
card exudes self-satisfaction and a delicious flavor of contentment. Just note that she also seems to be
surrounded by a garden wall of vines, nestled in her own little space. Isn't that where most of us feel comfortable
and satisfied? The thing is that once we
leave this area, our perception seems to change, egged on by comparison to
other people and what they have, what they’ve succeeded in doing, how they’re
thriving in the big wide world. This new
awareness of what other people have done in comparison to ourselves is where
the pitfall develops. That’s when the wonderful ambiance of this card starts to
get chipped away.
The nine of pentacles is telling you to
celebrate yourself, your accomplishments, your place in life without comparing
yourself to someone else. This isn’t
about them or they’re world, it’s all about You!
Reversed:
Sometimes our discontentment is drawing
sustenance from our own self-doubt and damaged ego. This card is telling us we need to rebuild
our self-esteem, one painful precious brick at a time. It’s telling us that before the world can
appreciate us, we need to appreciate ourselves.
Personal Connection:
I’ve discovered that, just like life, my
relationship with this card is up and down and slightly bi-polar (the card, not
me). You’ll go through phases where
nothing you do seems to feel right and you don’t feel “worthy”… worthy of the
praise you may be receiving; worthy of all the material things you might have
collected; worthy of the amazing opportunities coming your way; just worthy in
general for any or all of the accolades life is pouring out upon your weary
little soul.
Then again, there are those precious moments,
just moments mind you, when you can actually see the bigger picture, when you
can sit back and fully appreciate, knowing distinctly in that moment, that your
life is amazing. The emotion of
appreciation is highly underrated. It
makes everything we come through to get to a certain point worth it.
The nine of cups is all about your personal
appreciation… taste it; feel it; breathe it in deeply, embrace it.
Swords
~ It's
all about facing our worst nightmares.
It’s about dealing with stress and anxiety and learning to cope with the
darker side of life. It’s about facing
our worst fears in order to overcome them.
Anxiety,
stress, depression, nightmares, sleep disorders, paranoia, mental illness,
emotional conflict
9/Swords ~ “Oh, woe is me!”, this card seems to
moan, with a very dramatic Edgar Allen Poe feel about it. But take it seriously, even though it may
seem overly dramatic and even a bit childish at times, because behind this
first façade there can lay the bones of serious depression, anxiety, sleep
disorders, or some other cloaked and lurking mental demon. This card expresses to perfection human
anguish and helplessness. Once you
recognize it for what it is, the tarot will help you find the way out. Look around for that single ray of light,
that ray of light that’s always there, it’s just not visible to the figure on
this card because their face is buried in their hands.
Reversed:
Okay, you’ve crawled your way up out of the
bottom of this very clique bottom of the pit, but how are you going to stay on
top? If medical or psychological
treatment was sought out, keep up with it and any medication that was prescribed. If the situation wasn’t quite that drastic,
but was just a matter of recognizing unhealthy individuals and circumstances in
life, continue to avoid them at all cost.
My Personal Connection:
This card, besides the 10 of swords, is
probably one of the darkest cards in the deck.
We all own a piece of this card, whether we admit it or not, whether we
even admit it to ourselves or not.
Inside everyone, in the blackest nooks and crannies of our mind, there
lays all sorts of shadows and demons that have surfaced from time to time. I don’t believe that anyone who has lived can
avoid this energy.
What I have noticed through several decades
of life, is that being able to identify the demon and to figure out its
weakness, it’s Achilles heel, will help you to overcome it. The mistake that a lot of people make is
thinking that if they’ve overcome their darkest most personal demons, they’re
victorious. The battle is over. Not so, as I’ve seen with a few unfortunate
individuals who have come into my life for brief periods, that’s their down
fall. They drop their guard, and IT
resurfaces, to claim their soul.
This is a dark card, and it can bring to
light a dark spirit, or a dark personality… beware this card, take it
seriously, and be vigilante.
Wands
~ It’s
all about being ready willing and able to defend ourselves, but its also about
recognizing when we’ve carried this concept too far.
Defense,
paranoia, suspicion, retaliation, watchfulness
9/Wands ~ Oh, my god, it becomes so exhausting when you draw that line in the sand,
and then people, or the universe, or the four winds keep blowing it into obscurity, and you have to
redraw the whole frickin’ thing over again, and again, and again, and
again. Its nice to set boundaries, its
nice to be all strong, in-your-face, and valiant with the ideology “I will
stand up for the principle of the thing”; but at the end of the day, it’s
totally exhausting, and couldn’t you have done something better with your day
than stand there the whole time and hold that stake?
Reversed:
This card reversed? Whatever I said before, forget that, they are
comin’ and you don’t have much time to prepare!
Get a stick and draw that god-forsaken line in the sand, quick! Check to make sure you’re protected from all
sides. Look for any weak spots and apply
reinforcements where necessary.
My Personal Connection:
This card personifies Junior High
School. I think every single day of
junior high was a nine of wands kind of day.
I was always on guard. Everyone
was always on guard, and self-conscious, and posed, and rehearsed, and so
god-awful aware of oneself.
For me, this energy actually started when we
moved from the country into town when I was in the middle of second grade, and
I went from a one room school house (where I was one of the youngest students,
and the “darling” of the older girls), to a modern elementary grade school with
two classes for each grade. Socially, I
didn't’ have a clue. And remarkably all
of the social “cliques” that would survive all 12 years of school had already
been created, chiseled out in stone for all time. Strangers, newcomers, were definitely not
welcome, and my odd social obliviousness did not aid me in traversing this land
mine of snobbery.
I don’t think anyone totally finds piece with
the nine of wands, no matter how much time has passed, no matter what they have
become or accomplished. There’s too many
battle scars left to wipe away the memories.
Cups
~ It’s
all about knowing what you really want and having the remarkable ability to
actually manifest your desires into the real world.
Wishes,
fulfillment, satisfaction, realization, personal power
9/cups ~ When I see this card, I hear in my
mind the forever immortalized soprano voice and words from the Disney fairy
tale movie, “When you wish upon a star...”. I hear it now. Irritating little voice that it can be, it
can also transport you back to childhood when we really believed that wishes
were magical and impossible dreams do come true. And this is what you have to do now. In order to manifest your wishes into your
life, you need to re-embrace that naive childhood wonder and make a wish on a
falling star, with nary a doubt in your mind that your wish will come
true! Climb over the grimy piles of
adult perception, the potholes filled with sludge that are the remnants of
reality, and jump on the bandwagon with all the rest of us freaks who believe
in fairies, unicorns, and happy ever after endings.
Reversed:
Your wish isn’t going to materialize this
time, but this doesn't mean that you abandon it. It just might have to wait for a later date,
for a time when your mental perception of what’s magical, what’s possible with divine
intervention, is at a high key. It just
might have to wait until the energy around you is all positive and glowy, and
you have put some space between you, your wish, and those things and people
which can thwart your efforts.
My Personal Connection:
This card is awash with positive energy, it’s
absolutely over-dosing on sugar sweetness along with some ethereal surrealistic
reality. Do we always get what we wish
for? Does what we wish for always turn
out to be what we really wanted? Are we
better off when the universe smiles upon us, or are there some struggles that
should remain unfulfilled? It’s a
conundrum of situations and theories with endless possibilities lying dormant
and unused.
This is a very personal card, and for every
reading you do, for every individual you pull this card for, it will be a
totally different enigma, and you’ll have to translate the hieroglyphics of
it’s symbolism and it’s ramifications.
Getting what you wish for does not automatically mean instant happiness,
gratification, and satisfaction. Know this,
and get over it.
Source:
The Ultimate Tarot Guide:
for Your Personal Tarot Journey
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