An empty crossroads on a heath at night, a leaning signpost and poppy heads in the verge.

Pentacles · IX

Nine of Pentacles

Lord of Material Gain

The face of Nine of Pentacles, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Lord of Material Gain.

You grew this garden. Enjoy what your discipline made possible.

Upright

Abundance, luxury and self-sufficiency. Reward for discipline.

Reversed

Overwork, or dependence on others’ approval.

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The spirit work

In the Goetia, Marbas heals and gives wisdom in mechanical arts by day; Focalor rules winds and seas by night. Enjoy what you have grown.

Where the card sits

Correspondences

DecanVenus in Virgo, 10° to 20°, the second face
Tree of LifeYesod in Assiah
Governing angelsHaziel by day, Aladiah by night
Image of the decanA dark man clothed in a skin, and a man holding a bag.
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Day spiritMarbas, president
The seal of Marbas

Appears as a great lion, then a man. Answers truly of hidden things, causes and cures disease, gives skill in mechanical arts, changes shapes. Goetia 5.

Night spiritFocalor, duke
The seal of Focalor

Appears as a man with gryphon wings. Rules winds and seas; drowns and overthrows unless commanded otherwise. Goetia 41.

Nine of Pentacles in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Notes on sources

The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.