What does Ace of Wands mean reversed?

The Thoth Tarot is traditionally read without reversed cards: the reader judges from the cards around it whether a card is well or ill dignified. This is its ill-dignified or blocked reading: Energy that is blocked or scattered, enthusiasm that never becomes action; or impetuosity that burns opportunities before they ripen.

What are the Kabbalah and astrology correspondences of Ace of Wands?

In the Golden Dawn system Ace of Wands corresponds to the sephirah Kether, the element Fire and Root of Fire in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Ace of Wands — Root of the Powers of Fire

Root of the Powers of Fire

primal energy · will · inspiration · creation · impulse

A reflective starting point

What is Ace of Wands — Root of the Powers of Fire asking you to look at?

Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.

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Upright

A strong creative push is available now: act while the flame is alive. An excellent moment to begin, propose and dare.

At first sight

Creative force in its nascent state: a fresh surge, an idea that ignites, an initiative that starts with vigour. It announces energy, enthusiasm, the desire to act and to generate.

Within you

The spark of will before it has chosen a direction; pure vitality that asks for a channel to express itself and, if ignored, turns into restlessness.

On the path

The Ace in Kether: the root of Fire and the seed of the Yod of the Tetragrammaton. It is not yet an event but the power that makes one possible; its throne is the celestial quadrant of Cancer, Leo and Virgo, governed by the Princess of Wands.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, it signals a flash in the pan, impulsiveness, energy that burns without building anything.

Reversed

In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.

Energy that is blocked or scattered, enthusiasm that never becomes action; or impetuosity that burns opportunities before they ripen.

In love, work and spirit

Love. Ardent attraction, a new interest, passion that arises suddenly.

Work. A new project, an entrepreneurial initiative, creative momentum to be channelled at once.

Spirit. The awakening of life force as the first spark of the True Will.

Correspondences

Kether · Fire · Root of Fire

Crowley's note

Crowley paints a great primordial torch from which ten flames in the shape of Yods blaze, arranged like the sephiroth of the Tree: Fire as a natural force not yet disciplined.