What does Prince 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: Slowness that becomes stasis, stubbornness, loss of motivation.

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

In the Golden Dawn system Prince of Disks corresponds to the sephirah Tiphareth, the element Earth and 21° Aries – 20° Taurus in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Prince of Disks

competence · perseverance · building · reliability · practical energy

A reflective starting point

What is Prince of Disks 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

Carry your projects forward with method and constancy: your reliability is the key to success.

At first sight

An energetic, capable and reliable person who finishes what he starts; or a concrete project advancing steadily. It points to management, gradual growth, practical sense.

Within you

Intelligence applied to matter: the ability to plan and to realise, with a calm but inexorable temperament, which can become slowness or dullness.

On the path

Air of Earth, the Vau of the final He, referred to Tiphareth: thought that organises matter, the cultivated fields and the routes of communication. He rules from 21° Aries to 20° Taurus, where Martial impulse turns into patient Venusian building.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, he is slow, dull, lazy, greedy, jealous of his possessions.

Reversed

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

Slowness that becomes stasis, stubbornness, loss of motivation.

In love, work and spirit

Love. A reliable and concrete partner, not very expansive but constant.

Work. Management, construction, solid entrepreneurial activity, methodical work.

Spirit. The Work that is accomplished step by step, like a field ploughed with patience.

Correspondences

Tiphareth · Earth · 21° Aries – 20° Taurus

Crowley's note

The Prince of Disks in the Thoth deck drives a chariot drawn by an ox through a fertile landscape, holding a globe and a sceptre: the energy that makes the earth fertile.