tarot card meanings · minor arcana · cups
nine of cups — tarot card meaning
The row of cups behind the satisfied host; the wish fulfilled.
reversed
Satisfaction curdling into smugness; the wish fulfilled and found small.
two philosophical anchors, cited
The measure of enough · Epicurus, Principal Doctrines 21 (tr. Hicks)
“He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to procure enough to remove the pain of want and make the whole of life complete and perfect.”
Contentment as wealth · Dhammapada, v.204 (tr. Mueller)
“Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best riches.”
the question we would ask
Now that you have what you wished for, what did the wishing itself do to you?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.