Small cards, Cups
Nine of Cups
Happiness
A genuine satisfaction deserves attention. Let yourself recognise what is good while remaining generous toward the people whose circumstances look different.
What does enough feel like today?
Correspondences
- Decan ruler
- Jupiter in Pisces
- Suit element
- Water
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Yesod
- Ten-degree span
- 10-20 Pisces
Sources
The numbered cards combine a sphere, a suit element, and a planetary decan. The Ace begins at Kether; Two through Ten follow the numbered spheres. These are symbolic correspondences, not a birth chart.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 193 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part IV, Nine of Cups ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
In the Book T design
Nine cups stand in three rows; each receives water from a flower.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 193 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Lord of Material Happiness.
Wishes reach a state of substantial enjoyment and fulfilment. Kindness and generosity accompany that satisfaction, while vanity and excessive self-congratulation remain possible.
Thoth: Nine of Cups.
Book T’s title is shown separately from the Thoth name. The symbol note below describes the 1912 text, whose design can differ from Harris’s painting.