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The Nine of Cups card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A well-fed figure sits with arms folded before a curved counter of nine cups arranged behind them.

Upright

  • Contentment
  • Satisfaction
  • Wish

Traditionally the wish card — comfort arrived at and enjoyed. It invites you to name what would actually satisfy you, which is harder than it sounds.

Reversed

  • Smugness
  • Unfilled
  • Surface

Reversed, the satisfaction is thinner than it looks: pleasure that does not reach, or a wish granted in a form that missed the point.

About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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