Prince of Disks is a card of the Minor Arcana, suit of Disks in the Thoth Tarot. In a reading it speaks of competence, perseverance, building and reliability. In the Golden Dawn system it corresponds to the sephirah Tiphareth, the element Earth and 21° Aries – 20° Taurus in astrology.
competence · perseverance · building · reliability · practical energy
What does Prince of Disks mean?
Carry your projects forward with method and constancy: your reliability is the key to success.
Everyday meaning
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.
Psychological meaning
Intelligence applied to matter: the ability to plan and to realise, with a calm but inexorable temperament, which can become slowness or dullness.
Initiatic meaning
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 side
Ill-dignified, he is slow, dull, lazy, greedy, jealous of his possessions.
Prince of Disks 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.
Prince of Disks in love, work and spirit
In love
A reliable and concrete partner, not very expansive but constant.
At work and career
Management, construction, solid entrepreneurial activity, methodical work.
In spiritual practice
The Work that is accomplished step by step, like a field ploughed with patience.
Kabbalah, astrology and the Hebrew letter of Prince of Disks
Tiphareth · Earth · 21° Aries – 20° Taurus
Crowley on Prince of Disks
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.
Frequently asked questions
What does Prince of Disks mean in the Thoth Tarot?
Carry your projects forward with method and constancy: your reliability is the key to success.
What does Prince of Disks mean in love?
A reliable and concrete partner, not very expansive but constant.
What does Prince of Disks mean for work and career?
Management, construction, solid entrepreneurial activity, methodical work.
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.
