What does Nine 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: Happiness that is only a facade or depends on outside conditions; dissatisfaction hidden beneath appearances.

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

In the Golden Dawn system Nine of Cups corresponds to the sephirah Yesod, the element Water and Jupiter in Pisces in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Nine of Cups — Happiness

Happiness

happiness · satisfaction · wish fulfilled · wellbeing · gratitude

A reflective starting point

What is Nine of Cups — Happiness 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

Your wishes find an answer: enjoy the happiness with gratitude and share it.

At first sight

Happiness, satisfaction, desires realised. It points to health, serenity, emotional and material success: traditionally it is the card of the wish fulfilled.

Within you

The joy of emotional fulfilment lived without guilt; the ability to feel content and to let this fullness radiate onto others.

On the path

Water in Yesod, the Foundation, with Jupiter in Pisces, his own house, in the second decan: the great benefic spreads the waters into a stable base. Happiness is emotion restored to balance after the trials of Netzach and Hod.