Nine of Cups

✦ Card Name

Nine of Cups

✦ Keywords

Satisfaction of wishes fulfilled. Comfort, pleasure, the happiness of having it all.

✦ Meaning (Heading)

✦ Emotional Fulfillment

The 9 of Cups is the card of wishes fulfilled and dreams come true. When it appears, we've reached a place of emotional satisfaction, comfort, and pleasure. We've worked hard and dreamed big and now things are finally starting to work out for us! This is a moment of enjoyment and celebration, and we can feel good about this prosperous place we've created for ourselves.

✦ Warning and Reevaluation

But you know what they say about wishes. Sometimes, when we start to gain the stuff of our dreams, we discover that it's not everything we thought it would be. We may find our sense of fulfillment only goes skin deep—something else, something substantive, is still missing. When this is the case, reevaluate your dreams for superficiality. Success and attainment and material things bring temporary happiness, but real happiness comes from somewhere else entirely. Where does that happiness live for you?

✦ Imagery and Symbols

The vessels in our 9 of Cups are upgraded from humble mugs and bottles to expensive vases and urns of fine china, silver bowls and bronze goblets and golden trophy cups, all raised on pedestals like our loftiest of dreams achieved. Three champagne flutes fizzing with bubbles mark the celebration of the good life, while a laurel wreath of success and victory frames the scene. On the floor, a simple coffee cup sits, still warm, reminding us of our beginnings in the Ace, of what really matters, and of where our true happiness may lie.

✦ Trailing Punctuation

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