Minor Arcana · Pentacles
Nine of Pentacles
The garden
Upright meaning
Results you made yourself and get to enjoy yourself. Financial independence is real freedom.
Reversed meaning
Financial dependence, or wealth alongside loneliness.
What is in the picture
A woman stands in a walled vineyard in a robe patterned with the sign of Venus, a hooded falcon on her gloved hand. A snail crawls along the ground. The falcon is instinct that has been trained; the snail is the speed at which this garden grew. She is alone, and it reads as a choice rather than a circumstance.
Love
You are fine on your own. Do not rush out of fear of solitude.
Career
Earned on your own terms. Enjoy it.
About this suit
Pentacles are material: work, money, health and everything countable. Slow, but solid.
One thing you can do
Do the thing you have been waiting for company to do: the trip, the good meal, the cinema. This card starts there.
Is Nine of Pentacles a yes or a no?
Yes, and you can do it yourself. This card is about what you built without waiting for anyone.
Beside another card
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