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Minor Arcana · Suit of Cups · Number card
Nine · Cups
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightContentmentA wish grantedSatisfaction
↓ ReversedFlaws showingSmugnessAn honest account
What it means
↑ Upright
Called the wish card by many readers, it shows a well-fed man before nine cups arranged like trophies, arms folded, plainly pleased. It points to contentment and the comfort of having what you set out to have. Enjoy it without apology, and share the table: satisfaction kept entirely to yourself tends to sour into smugness.
↓ Reversed
Satisfaction with a crack in it — a mistake or an imperfection the folded arms were covering. Truth, loyalty and liberty belong to this side too, and they are the remedy: say honestly what is missing, keep faith with the people who stood by you, and free yourself from the need to look content.
Nine is near-completion, and in Cups it is the contentment of a wish largely met. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows a stout man in a red cap seated on a plain bench, legs apart, with nine cups ranged in an arc on a blue-draped shelf behind him. The row of cups is his satisfaction set out on display; Waite remarks that the picture gives only the material side, and that the card has other aspects.
Upright
Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage; satisfaction for the Querent or person for whom the consultation is made.
Reversed
Truth, loyalty, liberty; but the readings vary and include mistakes, imperfections, etc.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.