Nine of Pentacles

Upright

Self-made comfort, enjoyed alone and on purpose. Independence that took work and is worth having.

Reversed

Independence as a wall, or comfort that's begun to feel like isolation.

Its element

Earth — the body, money, work, the material. Earth is slow, and slow is why it is the only suit that compounds.

Venus in Virgo — the specific weather this card sits in.

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