What does Queen 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: Judgement that is too harsh, or a fear of the truth; sarcasm, coldness, isolation.

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

In the Golden Dawn system Queen of Swords corresponds to the sephirah Binah, the element Air and 21° Virgo – 20° Libra in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Queen of Swords

lucidity · observation · independence · judgement · sincerity

A reflective starting point

What is Queen of Swords 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

Look at the situation without illusions: the truth sets you free.

At first sight

A sharp, independent and lucid person, or the ability to see beyond appearances. It points to unpleasant but liberating truths, impartial judgements, decisions that cut away the superfluous.

Within you

The mind that unmasks illusions and defences: sincerity, autonomy, the ability to observe without becoming involved; it can stiffen into coldness.

On the path

Water of Air, the He of Vau, referred to Binah: the clouds, air made visible. She rules from 21° Virgo to 20° Libra, joining the analytical precision of Virgo to the sense of justice of Libra.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, she is cruel, sarcastic, unreliable, able to wound with words.

Reversed

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

Judgement that is too harsh, or a fear of the truth; sarcasm, coldness, isolation.

In love, work and spirit

Love. An independent, frank partner; a relationship that demands absolute sincerity.

Work. Analysis, judgement, objective management, the ability to expose problems.

Spirit. Freeing the mind from illusions.

Correspondences

Binah · Air · 21° Virgo – 20° Libra

Crowley's note

The Queen of the Thoth deck, seated among the clouds, holds the sword and the severed head of a bearded man, a symbol of illusions cut away by the mind; on her head she wears the head of a child.