What does Three of Cups 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: Too much celebration, pleasures that empty out, difficulty enjoying what you have.

What are the Kabbalah and astrology correspondences of Three of Cups?

In the Golden Dawn system Three of Cups corresponds to the sephirah Binah, the element Water and Mercury in Cancer in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Three of Cups — Abundance

Abundance

abundance · celebration · fertility · shared joy · grace

A reflective starting point

What is Three of Cups — Abundance 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 moment of joy and abundance: share it and celebrate with those you love.

At first sight

Abundance, celebration, fertility, joy shared with others. It points to parties, gatherings, moments of grace and a generous emotional harvest.

Within you

The joy that is born from sharing; the pleasure of receiving and giving without calculation. It calls for awareness so that abundance does not become dispersal.

On the path

Water in Binah, the Great Mother, with Mercury in Cancer in the second decan: love becomes fertile, shared form. Abundance is the fullness of the Mother, which however calls for care not to be taken for granted.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, it signals excess, dissipation, fleeting pleasures, superficiality.

Reversed

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

Too much celebration, pleasures that empty out, difficulty enjoying what you have.

In love, work and spirit

Love. Joy, celebrations, possibly happy news, even of a pregnancy.

Work. Collective success, a close-knit team, projects that bear fruit.

Spirit. Gratitude as recognition of divine abundance.

Correspondences

Binah · Water · Mercury in Cancer

Crowley's note

Crowley draws three cups in the shape of pomegranates overflowing from lotuses: the fruit of Persephone, sweet but bound to the underworld, a reminder of the price of every abundance.