A Wish Fulfilled
The Nine of Cups is known as the Wish Card and the Lord of Material Happiness, and is aligned with Jupiter in Pisces. Jupiter is expansion and Pisces represents the deepest emotional connections – this combination delivers a feeling of satisfying fulfillment, and deep and utter emotional happiness.
Jupiter never does things by halves – you can be sure that whatever it touches expands greatly and this can be to your benefit or detriment. Jupiter is the ancient ruler of Pisces, before Neptune was discovered and took that role, and so the energy of Pisces and Jupiter together are very comfortable, like old friends or lovers.
What a welcome card to turn up in a reading! The Cups, being Feeling cards and concerned with the Heart and Emotions, always show us the way to a successful life – the key to a successful life is a measure of one’s happiness and one’s happiness is connected to the emotions that we habitually go to.
When the Nine of Cups arrives, it is to indicate our emotions are going through a sublime transformation, we feel and believe and will therefore eventually see that we can have our heart’s desire.
The purpose of the Cups and especially the Nine, is to show you that when you are able to connect to deep levels of emotional happiness and wellbeing, you connect to the wellspring of life. Once you can learn to reconnect to this feeling when things are not so rosy, then you will always be okay.
Traditionally, the Nine of Cups heralds the granting of your most heartfelt wish, and is a cause for joy and celebration. Irritations, jealousies, misunderstandings – all are forgotten and as nothing because when you achieve your most cherished wishes then all the world glows and you glow with it. The benefit of your good fortune and feeling flows outwards onto those who are close to you and all is right in the world.
There is expansion of love in all its forms, since Pisces does not impose boundaries on its feeling nature. There is a flow of fluid energy which can really expand your heart chakra and allow you to bliss out on feelings of universal love – indeed it is a time when you feel in tune with others and with nature also.
There is a danger with this card of losing yourself somewhat, and this can often happen in a love relationship, when your boundaries and those of the beloved can seem to be indistinct.
It is certainly a time of great enjoyment, of feeling that you have discovered the meaning of all existence and it is in the realm of love and expansion. Most people are unable to exist constantly at such a high vibration of love indefinitely – as we need contrast in our life and experience so that we can differentiate what we prefer.
So enjoy the feelings that you may be at home with now, and also know that with the ebb and flow of life this will not last forever. The opportunity is to anchor the wonderful feelings you will experience now in your body, in your memory and in your life, so that you may draw on the well of your Soul in future times when you are most in need of comfort and reassurance.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.” – Rumi
You now can connect to bliss and your blessings, so take the opportunity to anchor these positive feelings that will serve to line your future wellbeing and happiness.
Most people think that happiness has to happen from outside circumstances, but once you have felt the influence of the Nine of Cups as an inside job, you will always have a wellspring of happiness that you can draw on for the rest of your life.
And so, when you start to understand that the Heart is a more complex emotional organ than the brain, you really begin to live.