All three of the cards drawn for April have appeared in the previous three months of the year, showing that the themes of this month will be recurring ones. The events of this month will make people take stock of the first part of the year, looking back and considering what has gone before. The Nine of Pentacles can refer to economic wellbeing, and making the right choices with investments and money. It is a card that appeared in February to show financial luck. However, the Three of Cups, often a card of friendship, is reversed to show whatever good news is accomplished will be accompanied by an emotional drain on the people involved. What some people see as good news, others may find a bit of a let down. This card often occurs to demonstrate the end of friendly relations between people - or the ending of some kind of friendship when its usefulness has been outlived.

The reversed Ten of Pentacles was the card that started the year. Material prosperity and riches are being squandered through disputes, which seem to concentrate more on reputation rather than anything else. In packs that follow the Rider Waite tradition, the scene on the card is of a family. Their positions in relation to each other are splintered. The foreground of the picture is dominated by coins, showing that money is at the front of everyone's mind, and is everyone's motivation at the moment.