Nine of Cups

The Nine of Cups denotes success so why are you sitting there not moving and just thinking everything through that you need to do to achieve that which you most want?

Perhaps it is because today with the Sun in Gemini (ruled by Mercury) and the moon in Virgo (also ruled by Mercury) you are well and truly stuck within Mercury’s grasp as to only be “thinking” and not “doing”.

This is not a bad thing because Mercury is just about to go retrograde in the next few days and whatever else is said about Mercury retrograde periods they are good for one thing… planning! And with the Sun and Uranus also moving toward a harmonious (sextile) aspect today, you’ can get very inventive in how you go about making those plans.

If you look at this card you will see the dualistic nature of the imagery and colours. The crescent shaped moon on one side of the chair, which incidentally shows the current stage the moon is in today, its first phase, which is just ripe for planning. The Sun on the other side of the chair which is good for actions.

A white gorilla sitting between the Sun and moon with an Ankh symbol — or the Key of Life — in its hands. Or is it Venus? A strong argument can be made for Venus given the rest of the imagery in this card. In which case you don’t want to allow your love life to encroach on your dreams.

If you find yourself talking yourself out of what you want to do because of your partner’s views or words then do yourself a favour and show yourself some of that Venusian love… and aim it at yourself… because when all is said and done you don’t want to find that you let a good chance pass you by and you are “stung” by the scorpion standing there ready to pounce.

The silence in this image is striking. It is as if you are keeping your thoughts, plans, ideas held within and not allowing  them to come to the surface yet you are more ready than you realise to release your ideas outwards into your life.

Look at the stairway to the star at the top of the card… that is a 9 pointed star which is most unusual and it is what you are aiming for.

Whether you do so quietly or loudly is up to you but do something, take action, make a move and stop seeing things in black and white. You don’t want to be sitting there forever frozen in place and unable to move.

Today’s tarotscope — Nine of Cups — is part of the Mary-el Tarot series by Marie White, published by Schiffer Publishing. Used by generous permission. Original art, as well as full-sized prints, are also available on her website. Please check out and “like” this deck’s Facebook Fan page. 

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