Nine of Pentacles

Upright

self-sufficiency · earned comfort · enjoyment

Your own garden, built by you, enjoyed alone and without apology.

Reversed

isolation · restlessness · cost of comfort

Comfort that has become solitude, or a nagging sense that it cost too much.

Why this astrology

The pips two through ten map onto the thirty-six decans, ten degrees of the zodiac each, so Nine of Pentacles is venus in virgo · second decan — a planet working through a particular third of a sign. Aces are the root of their element and the courts carry it as temperament.