Western Tarot symbolism
Nine of Cups
The prose describes a person who has feasted and plentiful wine arranged behind him. It says the picture offers the material side of satisfaction while allowing that other aspects exist. Concord, contentment and advantage appear in the main list. The additional list singles out military men for favourable augury and gives good business reversed, differing from the earlier reversed alternatives.
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In the sources
The card account
LiteraryThe prose describes a person who has feasted and plentiful wine arranged behind him. It says the picture offers the material side of satisfaction while allowing that other aspects exist.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryConcord, contentment and advantage appear in the main list. The additional list singles out military men for favourable augury and gives good business reversed, differing from the earlier reversed alternatives.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
the arched counter behind him, seeming to indicate that the future is also assured. The picture offers the material side only, but there are other aspects.Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 111
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0111
- Original scan leaf
- 117
- Recorded leaf number
- 117
- Current Reader position
- 111
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Nine.—Of good augury for military men. Reversed: Good business. Eight.—Marriage* with a fair woman. Reversed: Perfect sat- isfaction. Seven.—Fair child; idea, design, resolve, movement. Reversed: Success,Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 151
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0151
- Original scan leaf
- 157
- Recorded leaf number
- 157
- Current Reader position
- 151
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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Shared source pageEight of Cups
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Shared source pageFive of Cups
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