Nine of Pentacles
Correspondences
- Sephirah: Yesod
- Element: earth
- Zodiac: Virgo
- Decan: 2nd decan of Virgo
- Thoth Title: Gain
Meanings
Rider-Waite-Smith
Reversed
Keywords: Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.
Upright
Keywords: Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation.
Thoth / Crowley-Harris
Upright
Keywords: Venus in Virgo; growth, gain; bonded by love, wisdom, creativity; the more I give the more I receive
Growth and gain through love, wisdom, and creativity. The principle that giving and receiving are one.
Number 9: Foundation
Completion-before-renewal. Bearing the weight of the full cycle just before it transforms. Hard but transformative — the threshold.
Narrative position: threshold