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Waite–Smith, Cups

Nine of Cups

A seated figure folds both arms beneath a row of nine cups arranged on a curved, draped surface.
Enlarge ↗Source scan, PDF p. 222 ↗

What you can see

A seated figure folds both arms beneath a row of nine cups arranged on a curved, draped surface.

What Waite says

Waite begins with material satisfaction and a feast whose abundance seems to extend into the future. He also notes that the picture gives only one side of the card’s possible meanings.

Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 208 ↗
Edition and image credits

Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.