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Sitting up in bed with your head in your hands. The Nine is the night fear: the worry that is enormous in the dark and merely a task in the morning. What it points at is usually real. Its size, at 3am, is not.
Reversed
Reversed, the worst of it is lifting — or the anxiety is being kept so private that nobody has been given a chance to help with it.
If this is your card this month
What keeps you up, and how big is it actually in daylight?
A card is a prompt rather than a forecast. It doesn't know what will happen, and the useful part is what you do with the question it hands you. We make that case at more length in not a prediction, a mirror.