The deck · Cups · Water

Nine of Cups, from the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck

Nine of Cups

ConcordContentmentPhysical bien-êtreVictory

Upright

Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage; satisfaction for the Querent or person for whom the consultation is made.

Reversed

Truth, loyalty, liberty; but the readings vary and include mistakes, imperfections, etc.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

The picture

A goodly personage has feasted to his heart's content, and abundant refreshment of wine is on the arched counter behind him, seeming to indicate that the future is also assured. The picture offers the material side only, but there are other aspects.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

Older readings

Of good augury for military men. Reversed: Good business.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §4. Waite collected these and says they often disagree with the main meanings.

Waite wrote in 1911 and some of his meanings show it. Tarot is a tradition of reflection, not a prediction, and no card decides anything for you.