What does Princess 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: Emotional immaturity, misplaced fantasies, laziness; or sensitivity stifled for fear of judgement.

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

In the Golden Dawn system Princess of Cups corresponds to the sephirah Malkuth, the element Water and Celestial quadrant of Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius; throne of the Ace in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Princess of Cups

sweetness · imagination · sensitivity · dream · gentleness

A reflective starting point

What is Princess 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

Welcome the dreams and messages of the unconscious: nourish your sensitivity and give it a creative form.

At first sight

A sweet, dreamy and gentle young person, or a new emotional or creative beginning that arises in silence. It points to affectionate messages, fantasy, artistic sensitivity and at times mediumistic intuitions.

Within you

The tender, imaginative part of yourself, able to dream and to be moved; a rich inner world that asks to be protected and, at the same time, to express itself.

On the path

Earth of Water, the final He of He, referred to Malkuth: water that crystallises and takes form. Throne of the Ace of Cups, she rules the celestial quadrant of Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius, where the Mother's receptivity becomes body and image.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, she is selfish, lazy, capricious, shut into fantasies that estrange her from others.

Reversed

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

Emotional immaturity, misplaced fantasies, laziness; or sensitivity stifled for fear of judgement.

In love, work and spirit

Love. Tenderness, sincere affection, a young love or a gentler way of loving.

Work. Creativity, new ideas, artistic or caring work; a talent still to be grown.

Spirit. Sweetness as the door of grace and sacred imagination.

Correspondences

Malkuth · Water · Celestial quadrant of Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius; throne of the Ace

Crowley's note

In the Thoth deck the Princess dances among the waves, with a swan crown, a dolphin and a shell from which a turtle emerges: the fantasy and sweetness of water incarnate.