I was resisting, resisting, trying to unsee the lion face that I saw! Thank you everyone for reminding me it consists of the circles of the sun, therefore making it a real live solar symbol! Whew!
Poker chips, coins, green baize card table. I definitely see it. "Good luck and good management"! Good visual!
Oh, and thanks for the info on the meaning of "magical images." We muggles were apt to think that just meant slightly more elaborate signs.
Now my IDS!
9 = Deserved, subconscious
Disks = Physical
Deserved prosperity and health
This is a very circular card! First the 9 disks: Three circles are overlapped in the middle, pink green, and violet. Above is a triangle of 3 coins and below another triangle of 3 coins. 10 rays or leaves? radiate from the center. I’m having trouble figuring out the circles in the background. Are there one big one in the back with two overlapping ones over that? Everything is in subdued, brownish colors: green, pink, very dark maroon, and brown. Snuffin says the 3 center circles are the sun, and the faces on the coins are sigils of the planets. I see they are in “normal” tree of life order: Saturn at the top, then Jupiter and Mars, then Venus and Mercury, and a waning moon crescent at the bottom.
The Prudence and patience in the 8 has paid off. And the disks are not ALL coins, as in the 10, not TOO materialistic.
Crowley says the background is a circle of 6 larger disks in the form of a hexagon. I’m still not quite seeing it. He says the card can show a self-satisfied complacency and satisfaction. Not wanting anything else once the Gain has been gotten. 3 times 3 shows “the mingling of good luck and good management.” The multiplication of the Work done in the 3 of Disks by luck into a 3-fold increase? He says the multiplication of disks, originally whirling disks or turning wheels of work (or commerce?), weaken their energy, so they eventually become inert coins. (As, as I noted, by the time we get to 10, they’re all coins.)
Venus in Virgo: Crowley: “Good luck attending material affairs, favor and popularity.”
Banzhaf: Sensual, practical, reliable, faithful, and helpful.
In a reading: You have worked hard and had a bit of luck and now you gain what you deserve. You are in for a time of prosperity and health. Beware of becoming too complacent. There is more to life than physical comfort. But for now, enjoy it!