I came across this anecdote: At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … the knowledge that I have enough."
And it seems to me that the super rich right now have no idea what enough looks like. And the world of instagram and trad wives and holidays abroad are all about needing more, exploiting the feeling of the 4 of pentacles, where our financial needs and wants hang over us. We feel tight for money, tight for time, tight.
And what we want, what we should all be striving for is the 9 of cups, the card I call the fat and happy card, where you don't have everything, but you have that most special of all things, enough. You are content with what you have. There may be a cup or two missing, but you don't let that spoil the cups that you have. You let yourself have joy with what comes your way, and let yourself be rich in the ways of Joseph Heller, and know that you have enough.
That's my blessing to all of us, may we know the value of what we have, and let us feel contentment.