Tarot del Fuego: 9 of Pentacles

The most prominent feature of the image, for me, is the vesica piscis shaped portal in the person’s chest/abdomen. The vesica piscis conjures associations with doors, vaginas, fish, sex, manifestation, initiation, endings/beginnings, and traveling between worlds. In particular, I am inclined to hone in on the themes of manifestation and the sexual nature of manifestation (for a crash course in this, I recommend the YouTube video by Lon Milo DuQuette on the Sexual Alchemy of the Thoth Tarot). It’s a very visceral, material, and carnal card. The fire 🔥 makes me think of the expression “lighting a fire under their ass.” Given that context, for me, the card carries connotations, not only of manifestation, but the motivation to make things happen that is its prerequisite.

Back to the fish symbolism of the vesica piscis (think the Christian IXOYE fish symbol), this is reinforced by the fish hooks that are pulling the cavity open in this shape. This invokes two Tarot trumps by way of their Hebrew letter pictogram associations: The Star (Tzaddi/fishhook) and te Devil (Nun/fish or snake). Meditating on how the image you’ve presented here embodies the combined energies of The Star and The Devil would probably be fruitful. Intuitively, it seems like a good fit to me.

You also have strong elemental symbols for water and fire, in addition to the obvious earth (no air?).

I also see a heart “burning with desire.” It could also be seen as a literal depiction of someone hemorrhaging money.

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