Nine of Wands

Upright

resilience · last stand · wariness

Wounded and still standing. One more push, from behind a defence you have earned.

Reversed

paranoia · depletion · stubbornness

Guarding against an attack that already ended, at a cost you can no longer afford.

Why this astrology

The pips two through ten map onto the thirty-six decans, ten degrees of the zodiac each, so Nine of Wands is the moon in sagittarius · 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.