THE 9 OF PENTACLES, LORD OF MATERIAL GAIN

   A woman holds up a hooded falcon in her garden bearing grapes and pentacles. Your ally lightly touches a pentacle and gazes lovingly at the falcon, as if she knows the meaning of success, not just in the material realm, but as a person who has created her own stable world full of sweetness and quiet joy. She can allow the falcon, like her mind, to soar, but she realizes that at times it must remain hooded, subject to restrictions and discipline. Like the bushes and vines, her life is productive and harmonious and satisfying, which requires self-awareness, sacrifice, and effort. In addition to the flowers on her dress, which resemble symbols of Venus, Goddess of Love, she has the mark of an evolved person who is aware of what matters and what needs to be done to create and maintain a world of loveliness and abundance.

CORRESPONDING COLOR: Citrine, flecked with azure.

Reversed: spendthrift, undisciplined, inability to succeed or appreciate success, lack of domestic harmony.