Nine of Cups

The three muses triple; in the Hermit’s cave nine goddesses appear before you, each bearing a gift of learning and inspiration. Through your time in seclusion you have gained the ability to attract the energy you need.

You have achieved much, but there is more to do. The Nines bring not only the promise of prosperity, but also the temptation of indolence.

Upright

• Joy
• Fulfilment
• Contentment

You are at a summit, and you survey a beautiful kingdom of your own making. Frustration is a stranger to you; you suffer no lack of things physical or spiritual, and you are bathed in joy.

Doors between you and others are open, and energy flows uninhibited. Relationships, both romantic and platonic, achieve a new level of intimacy, a connection that goes beyond material considerations.

Perhaps there is a challenge you have avoided before, for fear of failure. You find yourself possessed of the energy and self-belief to grapple with it. Do so, for you may find your path smoother than you dared hope.

Inverted

• Laziness
• Complacency
• Need for stimulus

You have travelled beneath the sun of success for an extended period, and you have become accustomed to easy progress. You would do well to remember that the weather may change, and the meadows in which you walk may become a blasted heath that provides only struggle.

In matters of the heart, in particular, you risk losing things which are important to you. Things that appear ideal to you may not to your partner, and the fact of your relationship’s formalisation does not preclude the chance of its dissolution through your complacency.