Nine of Swords and The Moon

Anxiety and uncertainty, which the tradition treats as a genuinely difficult pairing because each makes the other worse. The Nine of Swords is the figure awake at night; The Moon is the situation that does not resolve into a clear shape.

Associated with fears about a relationship that have not been checked against anything.

Worry about a situation where the facts are genuinely not available yet.

Both cards are about the mind rather than the events. The pair is most useful read as a question about which fears have evidence attached.