Nine of Pentacles

What the card means

Upright

Enough, and your own, and quiet. A woman stands in a vineyard with a hooded falcon on her wrist and a snail on the ground - it is all earned, and it is all under control, including her own predatoriness. Alone, and by choice rather than circumstance.

Reversed

Comfort that turned out to be a well-kept solitude. Or a sufficiency without which it is no longer possible to feel all right.

Love and relationships

Upright

Good on your own. For a couple, a relationship where each has their own and it does not get in the way.

Reversed

The garden is kept and there is nobody in it. Or comfort bought instead of a conversation.

Work and business

Upright

Independent work, your own business, autonomy. You no longer owe anybody an explanation.

Reversed

Independence used to keep away from people.

Money

Upright

Your own money, earned and sufficient. A good card for anything to do with financial independence.

Reversed

There is sufficiency and no peace in it. Or spending on the garden instead of on a life.

The card's advice

Allow yourself what you earned - today, rather than someday. And check whether your garden has become a way of letting nobody into it.

As the card of the day

A calm, pleasant day. Good for being with yourself and being glad of what you made. Poor for avoiding people.

What is depicted

A woman in a rich gown stands in a vineyard, a hooded falcon on her hand; a snail at her feet, a house in the distance. The falcon is hooded - the predatoriness is there and tamed by her own hand.

Zodiac sign and correspondences

Venus in Virgo - sufficiency arranged with taste.

With other cards

• Nine of Pentacles + Nine of Cups — contentment in feeling and in circumstance at once.
• Nine of Pentacles + The Hermit — a quiet that is good to be alone in.
• Nine of Pentacles + Ten of Pentacles — your own and the shared; sufficiency with something following it.