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Minor Arcana · Suit of Pentacles · Number card
Nine · Pentacles
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightSelf-relianceQuiet abundanceEarned ease
↓ ReversedBad faithA hollow showPlans undone
What it means
↑ Upright
A woman walks her own garden with a falcon on her glove, the vines heavy around her: comfort that has been earned and is hers to enjoy. Waite reads it as prudence, safety and discernment. Take pleasure in what your own effort has built, and keep the discipline that built it — the hooded bird on her wrist is the restraint that keeps plenty sound.
↓ Reversed
A fine garden with a false gate: ease that rests on someone else's word, a partner acting in bad faith, a project that comes to nothing because its walls were only painted. Deception and bad faith are the point of this side. Check what your security truly stands on, and lean a little more on what you can see and tend yourself.
Nine is near-completion, and in Pentacles it is material comfort largely achieved. In the 1909 Smith–Waite deck, this card shows a woman in a flowered robe standing alone among vines heavy with grapes, a falcon on her gloved hand, a manor house behind her and a small snail on the ground at her feet. Waite suggests the estate may be her own; the snail is commonly read as the slow, steady pace by which such ease is built.
Upright
Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.
Reversed
Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.