What does Four of Disks 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: Excessive control, attachment, fear of losing; or a stability beginning to waver.

What are the Kabbalah and astrology correspondences of Four of Disks?

In the Golden Dawn system Four of Disks corresponds to the sephirah Chesed, the element Earth and Sun in Capricorn in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Four of Disks — Power

Power

power · stability · security · law · defence

A reflective starting point

What is Four of Disks — Power 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 position is solid: defend it wisely, but do not shut yourself inside your securities.

At first sight

Earthly power, stability, material security, control of resources. It points to a consolidated position, a protected estate, clear rules and recognised authority.

Within you

The security that comes from order and boundaries; but also the fear of losing what you own, which can turn protection into closure.

On the path

Earth in Chesed, Mercy that organises, with the Sun in Capricorn in the third decan: sunlight brightens and steadies Saturnine form. Power is the law that establishes and defends, an order that protects until it becomes a prison.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, it signals avarice, rigidity, fear of change, an obsessive need for control.

Reversed

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

Excessive control, attachment, fear of losing; or a stability beginning to waver.

In love, work and spirit

Love. A stable, protective relationship; beware of possessiveness and defensive routine.

Work. A consolidated position, financial security, administration of assets and rules.

Spirit. Stability as a foundation from which to rise, not as an enclosure.

Correspondences

Chesed · Earth · Sun in Capricorn

Crowley's note

In the Thoth deck a square fortress with four corner towers, ringed by a moat, stands out against an orderly landscape: power as a structure that protects and isolates.