What does Prince 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: Wounded pride, outbursts of anger, projects blocked by vanity or impatience.

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

In the Golden Dawn system Prince of Wands corresponds to the sephirah Tiphareth, the element Fire and 21° Cancer – 20° Leo in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Prince of Wands

dynamism · nobility · drive · pride · generosity

A reflective starting point

What is Prince of Wands 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

Carry your ideas forward with passion and speed: your energy is contagious and opens the way.

At first sight

A young or energetic, generous and proud person, or an undertaking led with passion and speed. It points to decisive actions, courageous initiatives, a wish to leave a mark.

Within you

The creative ego that wants to assert itself: enthusiasm, the ability to carry others along, but also a need for recognition and a tendency to take offence over nothing.

On the path

Air of Fire, the Vau of Yod, referred to Tiphareth: fire becoming active intelligence and vision. He rules from 21° Cancer to 20° Leo, transforming the protective sensitivity of Cancer into the solar pride of Leo.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, he is arrogant, violent, intolerant, vain and ready to impose himself by force.

Reversed

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

Wounded pride, outbursts of anger, projects blocked by vanity or impatience.

In love, work and spirit

Love. A generous and romantic lover, at times vain; an intense and eventful relationship.

Work. Dynamic initiatives, creative leadership, promoting yourself and your projects.

Spirit. Ennobling strength with a purpose that goes beyond the ego.

Correspondences

Tiphareth · Fire · 21° Cancer – 20° Leo

Crowley's note

The Prince of the Thoth deck drives a chariot drawn by a lion amid flames, holding the wand of the phoenix: fire becoming conscious will and being reborn from itself.