What does Six of Swords 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: Confused thinking, insufficient or misused knowledge; or an excess of analysis.

What are the Kabbalah and astrology correspondences of Six of Swords?

In the Golden Dawn system Six of Swords corresponds to the sephirah Tiphareth, the element Air and Mercury in Aquarius in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Six of Swords — Science

Science

science · intelligence · method · understanding · objectivity

A reflective starting point

What is Six of Swords — Science 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

Approach the situation with method and objectivity: knowledge brings the solution.

At first sight

Intelligence, study, objective understanding, problem solving. It points to a passage toward calmer waters thanks to knowledge and method.

Within you

The balanced mind that observes without prejudice; the ability to apply reasoning with clarity and detachment.

On the path

Air in Tiphareth, the heart of the Tree, with Mercury in Aquarius in the second decan: the intellect illuminated by solar consciousness. Science is the mind in perfect balance, knowledge integrated at the centre of being.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, it signals intellectual coldness, pedantry, knowledge without wisdom.

Reversed

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

Confused thinking, insufficient or misused knowledge; or an excess of analysis.

In love, work and spirit

Love. A relationship founded on mutual understanding and dialogue.

Work. Study, research, technical solutions, progress thanks to competence.

Spirit. Knowledge as a path to wisdom: understanding in order to be free.

Correspondences

Tiphareth · Air · Mercury in Aquarius

Crowley's note

Crowley arranges six swords whose hilts form a hexagram and whose points touch a cross with the rose at its centre: the intellect harmonised by knowledge.