Card 9 of 52 · Hearts · Nine
Nine of Hearts Playing Card Meaning
Hearts speak of love, feeling, family and home; the Nine brings fulfilment, the wish, the culmination. Season: spring.
Tarot counterpart: Nine of Cups
What the Nine of Hearts Means
The Nine of Hearts is the wish card, the best-known card in English cartomancy. Drawn for a question, it says the thing you were hoping for is granted or on its way. Nine is the number of fulfilment, and in the suit of feeling that is contentment, a dream realised, a hope that comes true in roughly the form you imagined. Nearby Spades can delay or complicate it, but the Nine itself does not take back its promise. If you only draw one card, this is the one you want.
Nine of Hearts in Love
The wish is granted. The person you want wants you, the proposal comes, the reconciliation holds. For couples it is one of the happiest cards there is: a season of real contentment rather than mere peace.
Nine of Hearts in Work and Money
Success. The job, the promotion, the client, the launch that lands. The Nine of Hearts favours work you actually care about, so if it falls on a plan you only half want, ask whether you wished for the right thing.
Nine of Hearts as a Yes or No
Yes
The wish card. This is the strongest yes in the pack.
Nine of Hearts as a Birth Card
Birthdays with the Nine of Hearts as their playing-card birth card: 30 August, 28 September, 26 October, 24 November, 22 December.
Find any birthday's card on the cartomancy page, or your tarot birth card, a different calculation.
The Suit of Hearts
Hearts are the suit of feeling. They speak about love, friendship, family, the home and everything that is decided by the heart rather than the head. In a reading, a run of Hearts means the matter is emotional at root, and that the answer will come through people rather than through money or effort. Hearts are generally good news; even the harder ones (the Seven, the Five) describe a feeling going wrong rather than a disaster. Old cartomancers gave the suit the spring, and matched it with the Cups of the tarot.
The Nine in Every Suit
The Nine means fulfilment, the wish, the culmination; the suit decides where.
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What does the Nine of Hearts mean?
The Nine of Hearts is the wish card, the best-known card in English cartomancy. Drawn for a question, it says the thing you were hoping for is granted or on its way. Nine is the number of fulfilment, and in the suit of feeling that is contentment, a dream realised, a hope that comes true in roughly the form you imagined. Nearby Spades can delay or complicate it, but the Nine itself does not take back its promise. If you only draw one card, this is the one you want.
What does the Nine of Hearts mean in love?
The wish is granted. The person you want wants you, the proposal comes, the reconciliation holds. For couples it is one of the happiest cards there is: a season of real contentment rather than mere peace.
Is the Nine of Hearts a yes or a no?
Yes. The wish card. This is the strongest yes in the pack.
Which tarot card is the Nine of Hearts?
The Nine of Cups. Hearts correspond to the tarot's Cups, and the Nine matches the Nine. The two cards share most of their meaning, though the tarot card carries a picture and a reversed reading that the playing card does not.
Whose birth card is the Nine of Hearts?
In cardology the Nine of Hearts is the birth card for 5 birthdays: 30 August, 28 September, 26 October, 24 November, 22 December. The rule is 55 minus twice the month minus the day, counted from the Ace of Hearts (1) to the King of Spades (52); the Nine of Hearts is number 9.
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