This image is very different to the traditional Nine of Pentacles card. Instead of a woman in a garden, surrounded by beauty and luxury, we have a creepy, bald, sharp-earred figure inside a tomb, and a ghost-like woman in white floating around outside in the cemetery. The sense I get is that the woman is being called to the vampire, and she is his garden, so to speak: the abundance which he has invested his time and skills in cultivating, allowing him a sense of well-being. Still, when I think of some traditional Nine of Pentacles keywords, such as independent and solitary, they both fit and seem strange. The vampire is solitary, yet needs others for sustenance, independent of the daylight world, yet tightly bound to it.
Can you recognise the many ways in which you are bound up with other people? In what ways do you sustain others, and how do others sustain you? Is there a good balance in this aspect of your life? What could you do today to improve that balance?
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