The Lovers and Nine of Swords

Choice with the middle Gemini decan. The Nine of Swords is sitting up in the dark with the head in the hands. The tradition reads the pair as a decision being turned over at night, when it is larger and less tractable than it will be in daylight.

Associated with agonising over a relationship decision. Read as real distress and as a poor hour to be deciding anything.

A choice about work that has become sleeplessness. Frequently read where the deliberation has long since stopped being useful.

Nothing is decided well in the Nine of Swords. The pair is unusually practical: the choice is genuine, and it should be made in the morning, on paper, with somebody else in the room.