Your Chosen Card – Ten of Cups Reversed Thoth Deck
When reversed, the Ten of Cups highlights family problems, domestic disruptions, and a sense of sadness in the home. There can also be a certain amount of strife and tension in other personal relationships. You may be experiencing a lack of a sense of fulfillment or a failure to achieve your hearts desires; or else you have gotten what you want but you find it lacking. There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Crowley says of this card that having got everything you wanted, you realize that you did not want it after all, and now you must pay the piper.
Keywords Reversed: Satiety, lack of fulfillment, indignation, strife, discontent in ones family or social life, quarrels, disturbance, ingratitude, disrupted ties, a fly in the ointment, dissatisfaction with what you thought you wanted after you finally get it.
Timing: 20 Pisces30 Pisces. Tropical, 11 March20 March. Sidereal, 3 April13 April.
Astrology: Assertive and warlike Mars in the third decan of watery Pisces, the last ten days of winter and also the realm of the Queen of Wands (Water of Fire) and the dreamy Moon (Pisces). Mars is linked to the Tower. The heat of the red planet Mars in this last decan of Pisces brings winter to a close and ushers in the first day of spring.
Number Symbolism: 10 – one too many, the fullness of completion, readiness to begin a new cycle.
Etteilla: Home, place of residence, domicile, dwelling, homeland, city, village, town; (R) anger, rage, wrath, strife, indignation, violence.
When Ten of Cups is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If Ten of Cups is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Ten of Cups is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for Ten of Cups using cards from the Thoth Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Portable Magic: Lay the Ten of Swords just to the east of the Emperor so that the head of the card points eastward, and its base touches the head of the Emperor. Lay the Ten of Wands in the south so that its head points southward and its base touches the top of the Chariot. Lay the Ten of Cups in the west so that its head points westward and its base touches the head of Justice. Lay the Ten of Pentacles in the
Complete Book of Tarot: Scimitars, which became the incisive Swords of tarot. Scimitars are short swords with curved blades that broaden toward the point. They are most devastating when used to slash an enemy from atop a moving horse.
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Complete Book of Tarot: Given this mythology, we can construct a meaning for the upright version of this card. The occupants of the Tower have built their edifice without regard to spiritual principles or divine law. As a result, the deity (Zeus in the case of ancient Greece) has decided to teach them a lesson by destroying their tower, thus forcing them to reevaluate their spiritual lives and start anew.