What does The Aeon 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: An awakening postponed, or a fear of being judged; the change remains inevitable all the same.

What are the Kabbalah and astrology correspondences of The Aeon?

In the Golden Dawn system The Aeon corresponds to the Hebrew letter Shin, path 31 of the Tree of Life between Hod and Malkuth, the element Fire and Fire/Spirit in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Major Arcana

The Aeon

renewal · awakening · turning point · new era · decision

A reflective starting point

What is The Aeon 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

A new phase begins: answer the call and make the decision you have been putting off.

At first sight

Renewal, final decisions, awakening. It points to a turning point that closes one chapter and opens another, often with sudden clarity.

Within you

The call to a new consciousness of yourself; the ability to take leave of the past and be reborn with a different outlook.

On the path

Path 31 from Hod to Malkuth, the letter Shin (the tooth, 300) and Fire together with Spirit: the fire that descends to transform matter. It is the advent of the Aeon of Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, it signals postponed decisions, hasty judgements, fear of the new, or fanaticism.

Reversed

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

An awakening postponed, or a fear of being judged; the change remains inevitable all the same.

In love, work and spirit

Love. A deep renewal of the relationship, or a final decision about the bond.

Work. A professional turning point, a new course, the need to update yourself to the times.

Spirit. The Aeon of Horus: the consciousness of the divine child, freedom and True Will.

Correspondences

Shin ש · path 31 (Hod – Malkuth) · Fire · Fire/Spirit

Crowley's note

Crowley replaces Judgement with the Aeon, inspired by the Stele of Revelation: Nuit arched across the background, the winged globe of Hadit, and Horus in the double form of a child and a seated god.