What does Nine 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: Unstable earnings, losses, dependence on other people's money.

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

In the Golden Dawn system Nine of Disks corresponds to the sephirah Yesod, the element Earth and Venus in Virgo in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Nine of Disks — Gain

Gain

gain · wellbeing · good fortune · prosperity · inheritance

A reflective starting point

What is Nine of Disks — Gain 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

Gather the fruits of your work: fortune supports those who have handled their resources with care.

At first sight

Gain, material good fortune, wellbeing. It points to inheritances, strokes of luck, concrete results and a financial stability obtained through merit or favourable fate.

Within you

The satisfaction of enjoying the fruits of your own work; the inner security that comes from having reached a certain independence.

On the path

Earth in Yesod, the Foundation, with Venus in Virgo, her sign of fall, in the second decan: Venusian beauty becomes practical and concrete. Gain is matter finding its stable foundation, the fortune that arises from the union of good luck and good management.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, it signals greed, ostentation, the loss of what you have gained.

Reversed

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

Unstable earnings, losses, dependence on other people's money.

In love, work and spirit

Love. Shared wellbeing, a stable relationship, emotional and material security.

Work. Earnings, inheritances, financial success, greater economic independence.

Spirit. Recognising the grace that manifests even in material wellbeing.

Correspondences

Yesod · Earth · Venus in Virgo

Crowley's note

Crowley arranges nine disks: three at the centre, in a column, surrounded by the other six, almost like planetary coins: fortune gathering around a stable foundation.