What does Prince 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: Hidden emotions that turn into manipulation; secrets, jealousy, coldness.

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

In the Golden Dawn system Prince of Cups corresponds to the sephirah Tiphareth, the element Water and 21° Libra – 20° Scorpio in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Prince of Cups

secret passion · intensity · creativity · reserve · depth

A reflective starting point

What is Prince of Cups 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 deep emotions are a creative force: express them sincerely instead of keeping them under control.

At first sight

A passionate but reserved person, gifted with artistic talent, with volcanic emotions beneath a calm, controlled appearance; or an intense, undeclared emotional situation.

Within you

The intelligence born of emotion: the ability to turn feelings into art and strategy, but also a tendency to hide what you feel and to use it as power.

On the path

Air of Water, the Vau of He, referred to Tiphareth: the vapour rising from the waters. He rules from 21° Libra to 20° Scorpio, between Venusian harmony and Scorpionic intensity.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, he is ruthless, manipulative, calculating, able to wound without scruple.

Reversed

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

Hidden emotions that turn into manipulation; secrets, jealousy, coldness.

In love, work and spirit

Love. Deep but little-expressed passion; an intense and mysterious lover.

Work. Creativity, strategy, the ability to read other people's emotions.

Spirit. Turning passion into awareness, like water becoming vapour and rising.

Correspondences

Tiphareth · Water · 21° Libra – 20° Scorpio

Crowley's note

The Prince of Cups drives a chariot drawn by an eagle across placid waters, holding a lotus and a cup from which a serpent emerges: power hidden beneath calm.